[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

New submission from Yitz Gale: In the documentation for xml.sax.xmlreader.InputSource objects (section 8.12.4 of the Library Reference) we find that users of InputSource objects should use the following sequence to get their input data: 1. If the InputSource has a character stream, use that. 2.

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Yitz Gale added the comment: See also: #1483 and #2175. -- components: +Unicode __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing l

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Yitz Gale added the comment: Hmm. When getSourceEncoding() is None, there needs to be some way for the parser to distinguish between the cases where it is getting pre-decoded Unicode through a character stream, or where it is getting a byte stream with an unspecified encoding. In the latter case,

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

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(), r

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Yitz Gale added the comment: Subclass of XMLReader would be needed, not InputStream. __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Changes by Sean Reifschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- assignee: -> fdrake nosy: +fdrake priority: -> normal __ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> __

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: It's certainly arguable that the current behavior is a bug, though I suspect it shouldn't be considered major since I've not seen any prior complaints about this. It should be easy to fix the bug you describe by taking the character strea

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 3.0 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue2174] xml.sax.xmlreader does not support the InputSource protocol

Changes by Serhiy Storchaka : -- dependencies: +Expat parser parses strings only when XML encoding is UTF-8 ___ Python tracker ___ ___