Re: [xml] encoding tutorial draft

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 05:25:30PM -0700, John Fleck wrote:
> Folks -
>
> With help from Marcus Labib Iskander, I've put together a tutorial
> example showing in brief how to do encoding conversion.
>
> I've posted a draft here (nothing's checked in yet until I'm sure I'm
> doing this right):
>
> http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/tutorial/ar01s08.html
> http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/tutorial/apf.html

  looking at it quickly this looks okay. point 3 and 4 should probably
be separated more clearly, 4 doesn't depends on 1,2,3 steps.

> Feedback encouraged. Among other things, I've not explained (because I
> don't understand) the role of iconv in all this magic, and I've not
> given a definitive list of the encodings supported.

  without iconv support libxml2 has native support only for the UTF8,
UTF16 and ISO-8859-1 encodings. If it has been compiled with iconv
it will use it to support all the set available from the iconv library
(which itself is dependant on the iconv implementation).

Daniel

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