Philipp von Weitershausen wrote at 2007-1-14 14:59 +0100: > ... >Traditionally, you parse an 8bit string, figure out its encoding (e.g. >from <?xml encoding="utf-8"?> and return some representation of that XML >with unicode data. That's why it's actually quite ok for XML parsers to >only accept string data.
Parsing usually means rebuilding the structure from a text string and *NOT* encoding guessing or Unicode decoding. Therefore, it is actually quite stupid for a parser to try to encode an already decoded string (i.e. a Unicode string) only that it can guess the encoding ;-) A halfway intelligent parser would accept Unicode when it gets it and concentrate on the remaining part of its task: either reporting structural events or building a parse tree. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
