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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com wrote:
> 
> > 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?

Deal :-)

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