How do I get the encoding of an XML document?

Hi there

I'd like to find the encoding of an XML document, as
detected by
libxml2, using the Python bindings. From lxml, I can get it
like this:

>>> et
<etree._ElementTree object at 0xb7cc992c>
>>> et.docinfo.encoding
'windows-1252'

According to the lxml API docs, lxml gets this information
from libxml2 (see
http://cod
espeak.net/lxml/api.html#parsers )

How do I get at it without depending on lxml? The only way
I've been
able to find is using debugDumpDocumentHead, which just
prints to
stdout.

>>> dh = xml.debugDumpDocumentHead(xml)
DOCUMENT
version=1.0
encoding=windows-1252
standalone=true

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On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:53:55AM +0200, Jean Jordaan
wrote:
> Hi there
> 
> I'd like to find the encoding of an XML document, as
detected by
> libxml2, using the Python bindings. From lxml, I can
get it like this:
> 
> >>> et
> <etree._ElementTree object at 0xb7cc992c>
> >>> et.docinfo.encoding
> 'windows-1252'
> 
> According to the lxml API docs, lxml gets this
information from libxml2 (see
> http://cod
espeak.net/lxml/api.html#parsers )
> 
> How do I get at it without depending on lxml? The only
way I've been
> able to find is using debugDumpDocumentHead, which just
prints to
> stdout.
> 
> >>> dh = xml.debugDumpDocumentHead(xml)
> DOCUMENT
> version=1.0
> encoding=windows-1252
> standalone=true

  Hum, it's a string attached to the xmlDoc, it's available
directly in C
but there is no specific API to extract it. As a result the
autogenerated
bindings don't seems to have a way to extract the
information. Could you
add a bugzilla asking for that functionality, the simplest
is probably
to provide a custom accessor function, specifically at the
python binding
level.

Daniel

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Hi Daniel

> Could you
> add a bugzilla asking for that functionality, the
simplest is probably
> to provide a custom accessor function, specifically at
the python binding
> level.

Done:
  http
://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392300

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