[webkit-dev] libxml2 "override encoding" support

[Alex Milowski]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
> You should feel encouraged to speak with dv (http://veillard.com/)
> more about this issue.
>
> Certainly I'd love to get rid of the hack, but I gave up after that
> email exchange.

In the shorter term, fixing this "bug" or "lack of feature" in libxml2
would be ideal.  I need to understand the two different ways we invoke
XML parsing a bit better.  We bootstrap the libxml2 parser slightly
different depending on whether it is a "string parser" or a "memory
parser".   Why is there a difference?

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics