Excellent, thank you. So I should read the document, the do a $doc->encoding = 'ISO-8859-1' before reading any nodedata values to obtain ISO characters?!
As documentation hasn't caught up with $doc->encoding, how could I've found out myself? Thanks again for the quick help, Andreas "Christian Stocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi > > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:31:38 +0200, Andreas Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm confused and google couldn't answer :( > > > > I'm parsing XML files using domDocument and XPath in php5. Works like a > > charm. But- how do I know if I need to apply and utf8decode to the data > > returned from the domDocument? Unlike xml_parser_create the domDocument does > > not seem to offer an parameter for source encoding. > > if you're using ->save or saveXML() it should use the initial encoding > (and state that in the <?xml header). Otherwise (eg. > $element->nodeValue) it's always utf-8. You can also read and write > the attribute $doc->encoding to change the output encoding (or to read > the input encoding). > > But as a general rule. Except for the load (where it uses the value in > the <?xml header) and save methods , it's always UTF-8. > > chregu > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks a lot, > > Andi > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > christian stocker | Bitflux GmbH | schoeneggstrasse 5 | ch-8004 zurich > phone +41 1 240 56 70 | mobile +41 76 561 88 60 | fax +41 1 240 56 71 > http://www.bitflux.ch | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gnupg-keyid 0x5CE1DECB -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
