Re: [xml] How do I get the encoding of an XML document?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:53:55AM +0200, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I'd like to find the encoding of an XML document, as detected by
> libxml2, using the Python bindings. From lxml, I can get it like this:
>
> > > > et
> <etree._ElementTree object at 0xb7cc992c>
> > > > et.docinfo.encoding
> 'windows-1252'
>
> According to the lxml API docs, lxml gets this information from libxml2 (see
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/api.html#parsers )
>
> How do I get at it without depending on lxml? The only way I've been
> able to find is using debugDumpDocumentHead, which just prints to
> stdout.
>
> > > > dh = xml.debugDumpDocumentHead(xml)
> DOCUMENT
> version=1.0
> encoding=windows-1252
> standalone=true

  Hum, it's a string attached to the xmlDoc, it's available directly in C
but there is no specific API to extract it. As a result the autogenerated
bindings don't seems to have a way to extract the information. Could you
add a bugzilla asking for that functionality, the simplest is probably
to provide a custom accessor function, specifically at the python binding
level.

Daniel

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