Sax2 encoding
Juan M. Casillas
juanm.casillas at eresmas.com
Fri Aug 30 08:40:20 EDT 2002
>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Fayolle <alf at logilab.fr> writes:
Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have an xml document that only begins with
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?> [...]
>>
>>
>> That is, without no info about the encoding. This document has
>> special characters encoded in ISO-8859-1 format (spanish
>> characters just like á, or ñ).
Alexandre> Then your document is not well formed XML, and you will
Alexandre> have big trouble parsing it. It should begin with <?xml
Alexandre> verions="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
Alexandre> If you can't change this yourself, you should ask the
Alexandre> author to do it. And if he doesn't want, you should
Alexandre> convert it to utf-8 using python's codec module before
Alexandre> parsing it.
Yes, I have malformed XML files :) I will do it.
Thanks for your help
Juan M. Casillas
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