From: Bob Hutchison <hutch@...>
Date: 2001-11-11T23:26:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24877] Re: XML libraries (Re:  Re: ruby and	webservices)

On 01/11/11 2:20 AM, "TAKAHASHI Masayoshi" <maki@open-news.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmmm...
> I made a patch for nqxml-1.1.1(see below). This patch has a problem:
> it's correct only for the document's encoding is UTF-8.
> 
> IMHO, default encoding of XML parser in Ruby should be UTF-8.
> Because XML is in Unicode world, not ISO-8859-* nor EUC world
> (unfortunately for me). And Ruby's regex doesn't support
> UTF-16.
> So, if the parser support only one encoding, it should be UTF-8,
> and documents in other encoding should be converted to UTF-8.
> 
> Is it good solution?

No I don't think so. How you represent the character stream internally is
entirely up to you (immediate *internal* conversion to UTF-8 by your parser
is OK). Restricting input to UTF-8 will place an impossible to live with
constraint on the use of your parser. Presumably having an XML parser is to
allow ruby programs to participate in a larger context -- and this larger
context isn't going to provide encoding conversions.

Bob