Re: [xml] libxml2, howto force encoding

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 05:33, Matthias Knöfel wrote:
> Is there a possibility to force a special encoding while parsing a xml file?
> I have to parse files with apparently false encoding declaration :(
> They are declared as <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> but includes
> characters from the iso-8859-1 charset. So the xmlParseFile() function
> will abort of course. Any ideas to parse these files without modification
> of the xml-files?

So are you saying you're stuck with files that are not valid XML
(because their encoding declaration is incorrect) and you still want to
be able to deal with them using libxml?

Cheers,
John
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