Thanks very much for taking the trouble to reply in such detail. I  
can understand why this is not something you would want to make a  
standard feature in XXE. And thanks for the tips on how I might go  
about writing a customisation.

Cheers,

Ian Goldby


On 21 Aug 2006, at 09:48, Hussein Shafie wrote:

> Ian Goldby wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to suggest the following for the Users Wish List:
>>
>> Option to suppress <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line
>>
>> Add an option in Preferences/Save to stop XXE prepending the <?xml
>> version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line to the top of the saved   
>> document.
>> This is to make it easier to edit documents that consist of  a  
>> mixture
>> of XHTML and PHP code. PHP chokes on the <?xml  version="1.0"
>> encoding="UTF-8"?> line. A workaround is to turn off  PHP's
>> short_open_tag, but many users (especially ISP customers) don't  have
>> the option of changing PHP's configuration.
>>
>> The icing on the cake would be to make XXE automatically add a <meta
>> content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />  
>> line  if
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> is suppressed, so that the
>> character encoding is preserved.
>
> --> I understand your problem. In fact with a first line like this:
> ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> ---
> many Web browsers display an XML source code view instead of a normal
> HTML page.
>
>
>
> --> However there is a big problem implementing what you request:
>
> * <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> is there because you have not
> chosen a different default encoding for saved file (Options|Options,
> Save section).
>
> If you had chosen "ISO-8859-1", you would have had
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> * Without <?xml...?> XXE will assume that the XML document being  
> opened
> is encoded using UTF-8  (to make it simple).
>
> That is, unless the XML document being opened is encoded using UTF-8,
> XXE (being an XML editor and not a Web browser which can make use  
> of the
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"/>) really, really needs <?xml...?>.
>
>
>
> --> What you want is best implemented using a customization of XXE:
>
> [1] You'll need to force the use UTF-8 using configuration element
> <saveOptions encoding="UTF-8"/>.
>
> [2] You'll write a DocumentHook in Java[tm] and declare it using the
> <documentHook> configuration element.
>
> This documentHook automatically replaces '<?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?>' by '<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8"
> http-equiv="Content-Type" />' in the saved XHTML file.
>
>
>
> --> References:
> * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/ 
> saveOptions.html
> * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/ 
> documentHook.html
> * http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dev/documenthook.html


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