From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@w3.org)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 06:10:19 EDT
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:31:47AM +0200, Stefan Bambach wrote:
> DV> Or EUC-JP if you're japanese or ISO-8859-2 if you're russian, etc ...
> DV> Yes libxml is now consistant independantly of the kind of input.
> I have to store some data from the XML file in MySQL. It's enough to
> store it as 8859-1, because I know that the system is intended for
> germans only :-) So I don't need all features.
Just to give you an example, I'm french and we are supposed to use
ISO-8859-1, except it lacks the o-e ligature œ character. You're
lucky if all your data can be expressed with ISO-8859-1 :-)
> Yesterday, I used the UTF8toisolat1() function to do the job for me (I
> have to convert each value I read from DOM tree by myself). Is there I
> function like xmlNodeListGetString() with an additional parameter, the
> encoding string, and I get the String as I need it ?
Hum ... it's not that simple. This would work well with ISO-8859-1
but a lot of character encoders need to maintain a state, which means
that if we fallback to iconv we should try to keep the same encoder
and not open/convert/close for each operation (iconv potentially
ends-up looking for a shared lib and loading it when requesting a new
encoder, this may become very heavy, very fast). So the function should
rather had an xmlCharEncodingHandlerPtr as the second argument.
I will look into this,
Daniel
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