Re: LSParser.parse - stringData - encoding declaration

On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 11:53, Kasimier Buchcik wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I learned that the LSSerializer should generate an encoding declaration 
> of "UTF-16" if serializing a whole DOM document to a DOMString via 
> LSSerializer.writeToString.

Note that this depends on the value of the xml-declaration parameter.

> So just to have it black on white: does this imply the encoding 
> declaration *has to* be existent and *has to* state "UTF-16", if parsing 
> with LSParser.parse with an input.stringData holding a XML document - 
> otherwise an error would be reported?

We added the following on LSInput.characterStream (modulo the
"<code>stringData</code>") and LSInput.stringData:
[[
It is not a requirement to have an XML declaration when using
<code>stringData</code>. If an XML declaration is present, the value of
the encoding attribute will be ignored.
]]

Since the document is already represent as characters, there is no need
for encoding information anymore.

Philippe