Re: I love XML::Twig

XML::Twig is great stuff. I use it quite a bit. The only issue I've had with it is that for some reason (seems to be XML::Parser's fault, but I'm not sure) the utf8 flag isn't set on the output strings (i.e. on $_->text(), $_->xml_string() etc) even though they return utf8 encoded by default.

update (2006-10-20) This appears to be a problem in a very old version of XML::Twig, I cannot reproduce it with later versions. (v3.15 and up)

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Re^2: I love XML::Twig by mirod (Canon) on Oct 06, 2006 at 16:38 UTC
Hum, I'll have to check that. Does this happen with a specific version of Perl, or in any 5.8.*? As you mention, the problem most likely comes from XML::Parser, which was written when 5.5 was still cutting edge, and has been in "light maintenance mode" for quite some time now. That doesn't prevent me from fixing it in XML::Twig though (the length of the RT queue leaves me little hope that XML::Parser itself will be fixed anytime soon). More generally, please, please, let me know if you find any bug in the module, I am more than happy to fix them if I can.	[reply]
Re^3: I love XML::Twig by Joost (Canon) on Oct 06, 2006 at 16:49 UTC
It's at least in perl 5.8.8 and 5.8.5. XML-Twig 3.13 and XML-Parser 2.34. It's "workaroundable" but somewhat annoying. :-) "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re^4: I love XML::Twig by mirod (Canon) on Oct 06, 2006 at 17:47 UTC
Do you have a test case? I tried a couple of tests and could not reproduce the problem: `perl -MXML::Twig -l -MEncode -e'print Encode::is_utf8( XML::Twig->npar +se( "<d>foo</d>")->root->text)' perl -MXML::Twig -l -MEncode -e'print Encode::is_utf8( XML::Twig->npar +se( qq{<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><d>foo</d>})->root- +>text)'` [download] Both give me a result of 1	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: I love XML::Twig by Joost (Canon) on Oct 06, 2006 at 19:55 UTC


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