[libxml-devel] [ libxml-Bugs-21658 ] failure to parse and obey encoding when creating document

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Bugs item #21658, was opened at 2008-08-24 13:01
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Summary: failure to parse and obey encoding when creating document

Initial Comment:
The following appeared on comp.ruby.lang:

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I have an XML request,
using the following code as an example:

require "rubygems"
require "xml/libxml"

movie = "sin+city"
search_url = 'http://www.movie-xml.com/interfaces/getmovie.php?moviename='
url = search_url+movie
doc = XML::Document.file(url)

Here's the response I get:

Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding !

The source XML has an encoding declared as such:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

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Tested and confirmed, plus I tried the same operation with REXML and there was no problem. It looks like we are not examining the encoding attribute up front and obeying it when parsing the body of the doc.

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