Re: [xml] libxml2, howto force encoding

[Matthias Knoefel <matk go cc>]

>   Now to go back to the original question, yes I think this is
> possible but it's not easy. You must create a parser input
> indicating the encoding to use (xmlIO.h), create a parser context,
> use that parser input to that parsed context and then ask to parse
> the document. Not trivial, look at xmlCreateFileParserCtxt() code
> to see how to proceed except you have to give an encoding when
> creating the input stream.

thx :)
i have solved the problem in the following way:

xmlParserCtxtPtr ctxt = xmlCreateFileParserCtxt( filename);
xmlSwitchEncoding( ctxt, XML_CHAR_ENCODING_8859_1);
xmlParseDocument( ctxt);
xmlNodePtr cur = xmlDocGetRootElement( ctxt->myDoc);

...and so on
this is working for me ;)

Bye
Matthias Knoefel