Sax2 encoding

[Alexandre Fayolle]

Dans l'article <mailman.1030702904.8805.python-list at python.org>, 
Juan M. Casillas a écrit :
> 
> Hello folks!
> 
> 
> 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). 

Then your document is not well formed XML, and you will have big trouble
parsing it. It should begin with 
<?xml verions="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

If you can't change this yourself, you should ask the author to do it.
And if he doesn't want, you should convert it to utf-8 using python's
codec module before parsing it.
 
> and poking arround the file, I found a 'á' character at this position.
> So my question is... how can I set the default encoding for the sax2
> reader so the XML parser works for me ?

The default encoding is UTF-8, because this is what the XML
specification mandates. You cannot change it. 

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