> Well, does the parser handle it or should the code that got the XML in > the first place handle it?
The parser handles encodings in XML; XML parsing is "bytes in, pieces of Unicode out". > Apparently whomever wrote the parsers originally thought it was not > the parser's job. =) Why do you think so? In Python, the XML parsers have always supported encoding declarations. Parsing Unicode XML strings isn't quite that meaningful. > If someone wanted to you could possibly dispatch on bytes to some code > that tried to determine the encoding and do the proper decode before > proceeding. That's the parser's job (and one that expat does correctly). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
