[Rssview-developers] Re: RSSView: Problem with XML encoding?

[Martin <cin...@gm...>]

Am Mon, den 15.03.2004 schrieb sfk...@hs... um 0:55:
 
> Yet, when adding the most popular german news feed, http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf, crimson throws an exception (see below).
>  
> Seems to be a crimson problem: The size or a token are invalid.
> => So, how to fix it? 
> => Do you know this problem?
>  
> Many thanks and regards, Stefan
> _________________________________________________
> Prof. Stefan F. Keller, Abteilung Informatik HSR, www.integis.ch
>  
> 
> Error while fetching channel: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/heise.rdf
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Zeichenumwandlungsfehler: "Malformed UTF-8 char -
> - is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (Zeilenzahl m÷glicherweise zu niedrig)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.InputEntity.fatal(InputEntity.java:1100)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.InputEntity.fillbuf(InputEntity.java:1072)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.InputEntity.isXmlDeclOrTextDeclPrefix(Input
> Entity.java:914)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeXmlDecl(Parser2.java:1048)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:520)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:318)
>         at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)
>         at de.cinek.rssview.RssParser.parse(RssParser.java:85)
>         at de.cinek.rssview.RssChannel.fetchNews(RssChannel.java:195)
>         at de.cinek.rssview.RssFetchThread.run(RssFetchThread.java:35)

Hello,

first I want to say that I can confirm the problem.

I'm sending it to the rssview developers to discuss this issue,
because I don't know, if it's heise's or crimson's fault.

Short explanation:
- heise.de is a german news site that uses "ISO-8859-1" for their
  rss-feeds
- it's declared at the top of the document (xml-prolog)
- in the text _content_ you can see lots of German ISO-8859-1
  characters

Question is:
What does the encoding declaration in the prolog refer to?
Is it the encoding of the tags/attributes etc. or the content
(between the tags)? Or perhaps both?

I've been looking for information on this topic on W3C.org.
I haven't found anything so far.

Martin