(fwd) Re: [xml] Substituting Umlauts by Unicode (&#x...) entities

[Holger Rauch <holger rauch heitec de>]

[Forwarded to the list because I accidentally used the "ordinary" reply
instead of the "list reply" function of mutt. My apologies.]

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From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
Subject: Re: [xml] Substituting Umlauts by Unicode (&#x...) entities
To: Holger Rauch <holger rauch heitec de>
Reply-To: veillard redhat com

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:38:35PM +0100, Holger Rauch wrote:
> Hi Daniel!
>
> Thanks for your quick reply!


  use the list !

> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > > ä ==> &#xE4;
> > > ß ==> &#xDF;
> >
> >   The internal representation is the UTF-8 string for those characters.
> > This cannot be changed.
>
> If it can't be changed, why do I get the aforementioned entities when doing
> an xmlDocDump() of a document to stdout?

  a dump of the document on stdout is obviously NOT an internal form !

> >   Ask for "ascii" encoding on output.
>
> How do I do this? Is this what xmlDocDump() does when outputting a document
> to stdout?
 
  You need to use a different API entry point. No more detail outside the list
  http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html
All the points in red still apply...

Daniel

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