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Package: libxml-libxml-perl
Version: 1.56-6
Severity: normal
The XML::LibXML::Document(3pm) man page says:
NOTE: XML::LibXML::Document::toString returns the data in the docu-
ment encoding rather than UTF8! If you want UTF8 ecoded XML, you
have to change the conding by using setEncoding()
But the following example shows that toString returns the data in
ASCII, instead of the document encoding.
XML file tst.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<root>abcdéè</root>
Perl script tostring:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
my $file = shift;
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new();
my $doc = $parser->parse_file($file);
my @nodes = $doc->findnodes("/root");
@nodes == 1 or die;
my $string = $nodes[0]->toString(0);
print "--> $string <--\n";
$ ./tostring tst.xml
--> <root>abcdéè</root> <--
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-newpmac
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1
Versions of packages libxml-libxml-perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libxml-libxml-common-perl 0.13-4 Perl module for common routines &
ii libxml-namespacesupport-per 1.08-3 Perl module for supporting simple
ii libxml-sax-perl 0.12-4 Perl module for using and building
ii libxml2 2.6.10-3 GNOME XML library
ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.8.2] 5.8.3-3 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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Version: 1.66-1
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 06:26:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2006-08-03 17:52:12 +0200, Florian Ragwitz wrote:
> > In my understanding of the documentation XML::LibXML behaves correct.
> >
> > Your test code call's the toString method on a XML::LibXML::Element,
> > which ISA XML::LibXML::Node.
> >
> > XML::LibXML::Node's documentation says WRT toString:
> >
> > $xmlstring = $node->toString( $format, $docencoding );
> >
> > Additionally to the $format flag of XML::LibXML::Document, this
> > version accepts the optional $docencoding flag. If this flag is set
> > this function returns the string in its original encoding (the
> > encoding of the document) rather than UTF-8.
> >
> > So the default encoding for XML::LibXML::Node::toString is UTF-8,
> > unless specified otherwise.
>
> Hmm... There *was* a bug since I got ASCII instead of UTF-8 anyway.
> I've tested my example with my the new version, and I now get the
> output string in iso-8859-1, whether the document is in iso-8859-1
> or in utf-8, and whether my locales are iso-8859-1 or utf-8.
The documentation was fixed in 1.66, and now reads:
$xmlstring = $node->toString($format,$docencoding);
This method is similar to the method "toString" of a XML::LibXML DOM
Document Class but for a single node. It returns a string consisting of
XML serialization of the given node and all its descendants. Unlike
"XML::LibXML::Document::toString", in this case the resulting
string is by default a character string (UTF-8 encoded with UTF8
flag on). An optional flag $format controls indentation, as in
"XML::LibXML::Document::toString". If the second optional $docencoding
flag is true, the result will be a byte string in the document encoding
(see "XML::LibXML::Document::actualEncoding").
As the return value is a Perl character string, it's printed in latin1
by default. Using eg. binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8") gives UTF-8 output,
as explained in perlunicode(1).
I'm closing the bug accordingly. Hope this is satisfactory.
Cheers,
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Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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