[I18n-sig] XML entity codec (Re: Output encodings again)

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com wrote:

> > Might I have any pointers?  Any cheat-sheets?  I'll probably be implementing
> > in C.
> 
> I think the easiest would be using the C implementation of the
> charmap codec as template and working your way onward from there.
> 
> The codec provides all necessary functionality except that it
> can't handle n-1 and 1-n encodings which you would obviously
> need for XML entities. Shouldn't be hard to add though...
> 
> BTW, I think such a codec would make a good addition to the
> standard lib's encodings package, so if you are willing to
> contribute this, I'd promote adding it to the package.

OK, let's make a deal.  I write it, you help me out when I get stuck, we add 
it to the std libs.  Everyone is happy.

Deal?


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