[xml] Encoding problems

[Lars <lsaenger web de>]

Hello,
I generate a xmlfile as normal ASCII Textfile with some special 
characters like äöü...
To parse it with xmlreader I have to use the line <?xml version="1.0" 
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
Internally the parse use allways UTF-8. Right?

When I access text or attributevalues I have to do extra conversion with 
function I found with
xmlFindCharEncodingHandler(...). Is there no better way? I can set 
encoders e.x. in xmlReaderForMemory(...) but it hasn't any effect.
When I extract xmlfragments with xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml(...) I must 
do a double conversion (2 x UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1) to get the right text. 
It is very expensive.
Is there a way to tell the parser to do this and give me the right text 
(normal ascii string like in the file) ?
thanks for help

lars