Irmen de Jong schrieb: > As others have tried to explain, the encoding in the xml header is > not part of the document data itself, it says something about the data. > It would be a bad design decision imo to rely on this meta information > if you really meant that information to be part of the data document.
A common problem is to save the data in the same encoding that they original had; this is what an editor typically does (you may know Edward Ream for writing editors). XML parsers are notoriously bad in supporting editors. There are too many lexical details that may need to be preserved (such as the order of the attributes, and the spaces inside the opening tag) to make it impractical to report all that to the application. IMO, the only way to edit XML on a level that does preserving of the tiniest lexical details is to edit it as plain text (i.e. without using an XML parser). Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
