Re: [Exist-open] Xpath and iso-8859-1 tags

[Michael B. <mbn...@mb...>]

Wolfgang,

> That's true. I just had a look at the problem and found that
> I still have to fix the xpath parser code to include the full
> range of valid characters into element names. I simply forgot
> about that, so thanks for reminding me. I will
> post a bug-fix once I got it working.

Thanks for looking into this. I think the problem does indeed need fixing,
because there will always be determined 8859-N people wanting to use eXist
without transcoding.

> The same applies to document display: When printing to stdout, Java
> always converts the character encoding to its default, regardless of the
> character  encoding you specified for the document. If you use eXist to
> store the content to a file, the character encoding should be ok.

I'm not sure I understand this particular aspect. My final point about the
sample I posted was that the file retrieved by the get document command had
the correct encoding (ISO-8859-1 as stored) but a wrong encoding declaration
in the XML header (utf-8). As far as I can see, this also happens when
storing to a file. If I'm right about that the output file wouldn't
(shouldn't) parse correctly.

Michael Beddow