Re: [xml] encoding question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 10:44:28AM +0100, Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> I am an absolute beginner to xml and started using libxml2-2.5.4 and
> became confused about the handling of enconding.
>
> As far as I understood the documentation libxml honours the encondig
> given in the document header. (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>)
> for a set of default encodings. (UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, ASCII, UTF-8 to ASCII
> with HTML)
>   
> If such header is given and iconv is present, which is the case when 
> using glibc, the conversion for input and output data to and from
> the internally used UTF-8 encoding is done by libxml2 and has not to
> be done by me. 
>
> Am I right with this ?

  Hum, to avoid any misinterpretation:
    - when parsing and saving, yes the convertion is done automatically
    - BUT all the APIs based on parsed document must all use UTF-8,
      i.e. if you want to add content to a document you must convert
      all the strings added first to UTF8, if you don't libxml2 won't
      check but will fail to save the document.

Daniel

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