Re: [xml] xmlSaveToFilename with UTF-8 encoding

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:42:19PM +0200, Michael Rottmeier wrote:
> Hi Martin and Daniel,
>
> [quote from Martin's reply]
>
> > Does this problem occur always for you, even with the example files?
> > What encoding is written into the xml header?
>
> I haven't tried the example files yet but will do this.
>
> The original XML file has a UTF-8 header and is properly encoded in UTF-8 (if you look at it with an hex 
> viewer) with a UTF-8 BOM sequence.
> The same goes for the XSL file; the "xsl:output encoding" is set to UTF-8.

  You did not provide said files. No way I can check, and I hate guessing...

> Maybe I should add that I'm working on Windows and use the Delphi/Pascal version of libxml2.

  I have no idea what the Delphi/Pascal bindings do.

> BTW: another question but related to this topic
> Is there any way to force a "Save data to file" - function/procedure to add a UTF-8 BOM sequence to be 
> added at the beginning of the file?

  UTF-8 BOM is completely redondant for an XML parser if not even broken,
It is more likely to generate interoperability problems than anything else.
Do not do this 
  http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200106/msg00788.html
even if it's legal
  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding (second paragraph)


Daniel

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