Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: Migration to libxml2

[Dan M. <d-...@uc...>]

On 22 May 2001, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> L=E1szl=F3 Kov=E1cs <las...@su...> writes:
>
> > > (now we moved to XML and UTF-8 so this is history)
> > Happy people:-) I wonder if it could be made history for Gnome too.
>
> No need to "move" -- just delegate:
>
>     Don't install SGML files but "convert" them at installation time to
>     XML (sgmlnorm and s2x can do wonders).  Proposed earlier by me.

Karl - Thanks for the suggestion :)

This may be a really nice way to circumvent the encoding issues and
support SGML documents without much work.

Does anybody know exactly what happens w/r/t encodings when we do
something like:
   sgml2xml -b UTF-8 foo.sgml > foo.xml

It looks like this uses the encoding detection in SP to convert from an
arbitrary unknown encoding to UTF?

Does anybody see any problems with using a call like this in ScrollKeeper
to convert any SGML docs to XML for further processing by libxml2/xslt in
ScrollKeeper?

This way we can keep our SGML support without having to do much work or
add bloat to ScrollKeeper or libxml2.

Dan