Re: [xml] encoding practice?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:29:17AM -0500, Derek Holden wrote:
> I am wondering what common practice is for reading and writing XML 
> internally. Specifically, xmlDumpMemory writing utf8 and xmlParseMemory 
> reading iso-8859. Is it better to handle the decoding on the dump end or 
> encoding on the parsing end? If I'm approaching this incorrectly or there 
> is an equivalent utf8 xmlParse routine I'd appreciate hearing it. Thanks.

  I would say keep everything UTF8, UTF8 and UTF16 are the only encodings
that any XML parser MUST support. And I would advise against UTF16 in general
because it forces extra conversion in most processing tools and in general
wastes spaces with useless zeroes...

Daniel

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