Article:		Non-Extractive Parsing for XML
Subject:		How you deal with encoding
Date:		2004-05-20 10:52:57
From:		jimmy_z
Response to: How you deal with encoding
Thanks for posting this question. One way to deal with character encoding is to build "intelligence" into directly various non-extractive string comparison functions. Most people are used to UCS-2 string representation in their code. So a "non-extractive" comparison function needs to compare UTF-8 tokens (or UTF-16) against UCS-2 strings. In addition,it may also resolve entity references on the fly during the comparison. Same thing applies to text to numerical data conversion as well. An non-extractive version of "parseInt" needs to convert a UTF-8 (or UTF-16) token into an integer without "extracting" it out of the source document. Hope I answered your question.

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