Re: [xml] encoding and htmlCreatingPushParser

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:15:40PM +0100, Petr Pajas wrote:
> Hi Daniel, All,
>
> I'm using the xmlCharEncoding argument of htmlCreatePushParserCtxt in order to 
> force the parser to expect a certain input encoding. It works fine but only 
> as long as the HTML document contains no header like
>
>    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-2">
>
> where charset differs from the encoding which I'm trying to enforce. Imagine, 
> if you like, that I receive the data from a web server, which already sends 
> all as UTF-8, declares correctly Content-Type charset as UTF-8 in the HTTP 
> header, but somehow the document still contains a (forgotten) 
> <meta ...charset=iso-8859-2>.
>
> I should mention that both htmlParseDoc() and htmlParseFile(), under the same 
> scenario, do obey the encoding I specify.

  htmlRead... should be preferred nowadays.

> Since these methods are more high-level I'm not sure whether it's a bug or 
> feature that htmlCreatePushParserCtxt() favors <meta> over the encoding 
> specified in the constructor while htmlParse* do otherwise. In either case, 
> I'd be interested if there is currently some way to force encoding with the 
> push parser (so that the <meta> won't overrride it)?

  I don't have time right now to go check and potentially make a patch. Best
is to bugzilla, but don't hold your breath !

Daniel

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