[Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: Migration to libxml2

[Karl E. <ke...@gm...>]

Dan Mueth <d-...@uc...> writes:

> Karl - Thanks for the suggestion :)

I'm always at yous disposal ;)

> 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

Sorry, don't know (it works for iso-8859-1).

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

Maybe, proprocessing with recode/iconv is needed.  The writer should
store the encoding somewhere (inside of a PI or a comment).

> 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?

No :)

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