[Python-Dev] XML codec?

[Walter Dörwald]

"Martin v. Löwis" sagte:
>> And what do you do once you've detected the encoding? You decode the
>> input, so why not combine both into an XML decoder?
>
> Because it is the XML parser that does the decoding, not the
> application. Also, it is better to provide functionality in
> a modular manner (i.e. encoding detection separately from
> encodings),

It is separate. Detection is done by codecs.detect_xml_encoding(), decoding is done by the codec.

> and leaving integration of modules to the application,
> in particular if the integration is trivial.

Servus,
   Walter