Re: [xml] Ignoring Character Encodings

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:35:30PM +0100, Cyberthymia wrote:
> From: "Daniel Veillard" <veillard redhat com>
> >   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.
>
> I understand - I was just hoping for a "We've already done the encoding
> for you" type of option. The situation occurs because the user can load the
> document into our app, during which we have to encode it to our internal
> format (otherwise all of our existing functionality falls apart). They can
> then
> edit the doc inside the app before asking for it to be parsed. As such, they
> still need to specify the encoding declaration in the doc so we know what
> we need to do to load it, and can save it in the right format. (The original
> document before we load it really will be ISO-8859-1, and will remain so
> if they save the document back out post-parsing)
>
> So the correct thing I'd need to do is to either remove (hide) the encoding
> declaration or to re-encode the doc back into its original format before
> feeding it to the parser?

  Well if you know that documents will be ISO-8859-1 and already converted
to UTF8 you could override the default converters for this encoding by
supplying basically identity converters. 
   Defined on the same page I pointed you to in the previous mail
     http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html

Daniel

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