Re: [xml] HTML Parser

[Lucas Brasilino <brasilino recife pe gov br>]

> Hi all,
        Hi Marco

> I'd like to use libxml2 HTML Parser to parse web page and extract information.
>
> Reading docs I see that the method htmlParseFile accepts two parameters: file to parse and the encoding. But 
> I can't know the web page encoding before parsing it.
>
> If I pass null, does libxml2 discover the web page encoding?

        AFAIK, no. W3C HTML Recommendation (
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#h-5.2.2) recommends authors to
specify an encoding. What browsers do is a "guess up" comparing
page charset against a little internal database.
        If you *really* need to discover it, you can do something
like stripping out HTML tags and try to figure out content encoding...

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