Re: [xslt] Embedded Stylesheets

[Dave Hyatt <hyatt apple com>]

We do all this ourselves.  We already have a decoding system in place 
that is unified for HTML and XML and that scans the initial source for 
meta tags and xml encodings etc. and also works correctly with HTTP 
headers.  By the time we've sent the data to libxml, it's been decoded.

dave

On Aug 15, 2004, at 1:32 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:11:53PM -0700, Dave Hyatt wrote:
> > Ok, looked into this further, and the issue is that WebCore has 
> > already
> > done the decoding into a UTF-16 buffer.  So that's why we have to
>
>   You're loosing a lot of speed there, as a lot of XML is served as
> UTF-8 . But my main concern is that you will not be conformant that way
> and I fear this is gonna break horribly:
>
>    for example
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <très>là</très>
>
>  in isolation is well formed. If delivered with an HTTP header 
> indicating
>
> Content-Type: application/xml;encoding=UTF-8
>
>   then it's not well formed anymore and vice versa. The HTTP header
> in XML overrides the encoding declaration in the instance, it's stupid
> but it's that way.
>
> As a result if you make the conversion and loose the encoding you will
> get well formedness errors from the XML parser for resources which
> should be well formed because you decoupled encoding from parsing, and
> that you can't do in XML. Please look about this, this will break
> and no amount of testing from disk loading can ever show it.
>
> > specify this explicitly.  It turns out the bug was just further up in
> > my code and I was passing in the wrong string.  Everything works just
> > fine now even with the encoding override.
>
>   Okidoc :-)
> I'm cleaning up  a number of bugs today, I will try an implementation
> of the include/import loading extensions.
>
> Daniel
>
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