7 Nov
2007
7 Nov
'07
5:53 p.m.
I have a patch ready (http://bugs.python.org/issue1399) that adds an XML codec. This codec implements encoding detection as specified in http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-guessing and could be used for the decoding phase of an XML parser. Other use cases are: The codec could be used for transcoding an XML input before passing it to the real parser, if the parser itself doesn't support the encoding in question. A text editor could use the codec to decode an XML file. When the user changes the XML declaration and resaves the file, it would be saved in the correct encoding. I'd like to have this codec in 2.6 and 3.0. Any comments? Servus, Walter