Re: [xml] Ignoring Character Encodings

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:49:17PM +0100, Richard Jinks wrote:
> From: "Daniel Veillard" <veillard redhat com>
> Ah. I think I might not have explained myself properly. I'm concerned with
> the
> parsing of the document, not with the subsequent output.

  Okay then I misunderstood. Seems common these days, I'm tired for
a lot of reasons.

> I'm feeding the document in through the push parser in large chunks, but as
> libxml gets to the encoding declaration, it suddenly switches encoding on me
> and starts reporting errors that the UTF-8 chars I'm giving it don't match
> the
> ISO-8859-1 (for example) encoding the document says it's in, and used to
> be in before I got to it. Subsequently, the errors from the libxml encoder
> causes
> the parse to fail.

  Right, if the document declares to be in ISO-8859-1, but is actually
in UTF-8 that's a fatal error, your document is not XML. You need to
fix it before handing it to the parser (well this can be argued upon
in the case where the framework provides the encoding, like when using
HTTP encoding informations associated with the Content-Type).
  But I consider libxml2 rejecting document whose declared encoding
does not match the actual one to be a feature, not an error.

Daniel

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