Yitz Gale added the comment: So I think there are two possibilities:
1. Use a special value for getSourceEnconding(), like "unicode", to indicate that this is a unicode character stream and not a byte stream. 2. Provide yet another method in the XMLReader interface: sourceIsCharacterStream(), returning a bool. There is a more drastic option: 3. Since expat doesn't support this stuff anyway, and perhaps not too many people have written parsers that do support it, dumb down the InputSource interface. Specifically, deprecate setCharacterStream(), getCharacterStream(), setEncoding() and getEncoding(), none of which are used by expat. Parsers should read the XML from the byte stream and use that to determine the encoding. That may upset some implementors of XML libraries though. They would each have to go to some trouble to provide their own proprietary and possibly incompatible mechanisms for this, if they need it. Perhaps a compromise fourth path would be to have subclasses of InputSource for the two cases of character stream and byte stream. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2174> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
