Re: [xml] Possible XML Entity encoding bug.

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 13:05:03 EST

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 05:47:21PM +0000, steve woolfries wrote:
>
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I am using libxml2-2.2.4 parser on SunOS that seems to convert the
> £ (or £) sequence into £ (ie a capital A-circumflex followed
> by a pound-sterling sign) instead of simply a pound-sterling sign.
>
> Being a bit unfamiliar with libxml, it's quite possible that I'm missing
> something or doing something stupid. Any help or redirection to
> somewhere where I could get help more on my level would be much
> appreciated.

  Quite possible :-)
Libxml keep its internal representation as sequences of UTF8 characters
Here is how it is represented:

orchis:~/XML -> ./xmllint --dedug tst.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<tst>&#xA3;</tst>
orchis:~/XML -> ./xmllint --debug tst.xml
DOCUMENT
version=1.0
URL=tst.xml
standalone=true
  ELEMENT tst
      TEXT
        content=#C2#A3

  The UTF8 representation of the character 163 is a sequence of 2
bytes 0xC2 and 0xA3

  Please check the doc on internationalization support
    http://xmlsoft.org/encoding.html
for further information on this topic,

Daniel 

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