[xml] 'Re: "Control over encoding declaration (prolog and meta)'

[Kasimier Buchcik <kbuchcik 4commerce de>]

Hi,

on 1/15/2004 3:57 PM Igor Zlatkovic wrote:

> Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
>
> > Ok, this issue is DOM 3 related. As you might remember I'm still 
> > struggeling with "to DOMString serialization" and "from DOMString 
> > parsing", which has to be always UTF-16 encoded, regardless of the 
> > content; so if I have e.g. an ISO-8859-1 document I still need it to be 
> > serialized to UTF-16, but it still *has to* contain an encoding 
> > declaration of ISO-8859-1. It sounds like no big deal, but if I don't 
> > have control over both, the target encoding and the declared encoding, I 
> > can't fullfill the requirements of the DOM 3 spec.
>
>
> You want to put the serialised data in a DOMString? Having a document as 
> it would be on the permanent storage, verbatim, in a DOMString? Why in 
> the name of God would you ever want to do this? DOM is there to access 
> parsed data, not serialised data, no?

In the name of God, I want to do this because of the lovely DOM 3 LS 
specification.

DOMString:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-Core-20031107/core.html#ID-C74D1578

DOM 3 LS - LSSerializer.writeToString
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-DOM-Level-3-LS-20031107/load-save.html#LS-LSSerializer-writeToString

>  > Finally I must admit that there would be a workaround for me: I could
>  > serialize with the existing API, then encode to UTF-16LE. But since we
>  > are using quite huge documents, I guess it will not acceptable in
>  > matters of performance and seems rather stupid.
>
> You have huge documents and want to put them in a DOMString, unparsed. A 
> DOMString is an object instance which exists in computer's RAM, no? If 
> those documents fit in RAM, then how huge can they be?

I don't know what you are trying to ask here; "performance" was about 
speed and not about memory.

> I don't see a problem in post-recoding here, putting serialised data in 
> a DOMString instance sounds a much worse idea. What are you trying to 
> do? Perhaps there is a better solution.

Jesus, what is this all... I'm talking about some requirements of the 
DOM 3 LS specification, and you let it look like eating toe nails


Greetings,

Kasimier