Davanzo Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks > If I understand correctly the documentation for xerces-c 1.0.0.d01 for win32 > systems, it is stated that there is not built-in parsing for ISO-8859-1 > caracters; infact i get errors if I try to parse with a DOMParser these > characters; however in the FAQ you state that in the binary drop there is a > /bin/icu/data containing the necessary.cnv files; however I can not find > such a directory, neither the .cnv files, neither dhe icu.dll library. > > Where can I find these files? how do I install them? once installed, is it > necessary to recompile or modify my existing programs? >
ICU is an open source project, although it is hosted by IBM Developer Works rather than Apache. See http://www10.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/icu/project/index.html for more information and downloads. Xerces 1.0.* does not include built-in handling for ISO-8859-1, meaning that ICU is required for XML documents with this encoding. Xerces 1.1 does handle this encoding without requiring an additional transcoding service such as ICU. In general, you will need to recompile your applications when switching to a different version of Xerces, such as when moving from 1.0.1 to 1.1. The prebuilt Xerces libraries that are distributed from the Apache web site do not use ICU. Configuring the parser to use ICU requires a rebuild of Xerces itself. Everything is set up though, it's just a matter of a single build option. Prebuilt versions of Xerces with ICU are available from IBM at http://alphaworks.ibm.com -- Andy
