[xml] Re: Problem with external documents and encoding

[Christopher Morrison <cm0rris0n yahoo com>]

Please disregard ... I can get this working using
xsltproc , so the problem must be in the wrappers
(ns_xml module for AOLserver) I am using to access
libxml/libxslt.  Sorry to bother you.


--- Chris Morrison <CMorrison foxsports com> wrote:
> Trying to apply XSL file FOO.XSL to XML file BAR.XML
> with external document
> BAZ.XML using libxml2-2.4.21 and libxslt-1.0.17
> returns an error:
> I'm quite confused because the encoding seems to be
> clearly declared in
> BAZ.XML.
>
> ------------------
> Error :
> Entity: line 1: error: xmlSwitchToEncoding : no
> input
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>                                         ^
> Entity: line 35: error: Input is not proper UTF-8,
> indicate encoding !
>                  <name first-name="José"/>
>                                       ^
> Entity: line 35: error: Bytes: 0xE9 0x22 0x20 0x6C
>
> ------------------
> FOO.XSL
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet id="test" version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="no"
> omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
> <xsl:variable name="externalXML"
select="document('http://localhost/BAZ.XML')/topnode"/>
> <xsl:output select="$externalXML/name/@first-name"/>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> ------------------
>
> ------------------
> BAR.XSL
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <topnode>
>  <doesnotmatter>
> </topnode>
>
> ------------------
> With BAZ.XML looking like :
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <topnode>
>  <name first-name="José"/>
> </topnode>
>
> ------------------
>
> The only thing closely resembling this in the
> listserv archives is quite old
> and the response says its fixed:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-April/msg00075.html
> From what I can tell, I'm using the most recent
> versions of everything and
> there are no relevant open bugs listed:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml
> or
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt
>


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