James Bates wrote:
>
> OK. I have a patch ready to commit that does away with TextWriter and
> StringSerializer, and uses Xerces to serialize.
>
> However, the serializer in xerces 2 is a bit over-zealous and inserts
> namespace binding nodes for any what it considers to be "undeclared"
> namespaces... And Xindice's DOM implementation's representation of namespace
> binding nodes are unfortunately not compatible with Xerces' idea of such
> nodes. (The real problem here is that DOM doesn't foresee them, and so
> everyone has more or less their own idea for adding "attributes" representing
> namespace binding nodes...)
>
> Falling back to Xerces 1.4.4 fixes the problem (as 1.4.4 serializes only what
> is explicitly present in the DOM). I can explain the details for those
> interested if needed, but I want to keep this mail relatively short.
> Bottom-line: my changes work only with the older Xerces 1.4.4, making them
> largely undesirable (as one goal was to be independent of Xerces/XML parser
> version).
>
> On the plus side, this does allow me to introduce the notion of an output
> encoding selection switch in the command-line tools for retrieving and
> exporting documents in encodings other than UTF-8.
>
> For example, the command
>
> xindiceadmin rd -c xmldb:xindice-rpc://localhost:4080/db/mycollection -n
> somedoc.xml
> -f mylocalfile.xml -z iso-8859-1
>
> will write the result in latin 1, not utf-8. If the document contains
> characters not representable in Latin-1, the serializer even writes escape
> sequences (&#xZZZZ;) for them! Pretty cool :)
>
> Anyway, in view of the possible problems, again I'm wondering whether to go
> ahead and commit, or maybe have a more serious think about all this first?
Just one thought, maybe we can contact the xerces guys and tell them our
problems. Maybe they have some Xerces-specific SAX properties that
change the behavior that you don't like.
Don't know, worth investigating.
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
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