[Python-Dev] XML codec? (original) (raw)

Walter Dörwald walter at livinglogic.de
Sat Nov 10 17:15:29 CET 2007

"Martin v. Löwis" sagte:

And what do you do once you've detected the encoding? You decode the input, so why not combine both into an XML decoder? Because it is the XML parser that does the decoding, not the application. Also, it is better to provide functionality in a modular manner (i.e. encoding detection separately from encodings),

It is separate. Detection is done by codecs.detect_xml_encoding(), decoding is done by the codec.

and leaving integration of modules to the application, in particular if the integration is trivial.

Servus, Walter

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