Re: [xml] Some things about xmlCharEncodingHandler

["Oliver Stöneberg" <oliverst online de>]

> Okay, now I must clarify: I didn't say that you should overwrite the 
> handler in any libxml function. You must do it in your program's code. 
> That because only your program can know how and when to do it without 
> crying thereafter.

Ah OK, alittle missunderstanding on my side. 

> So, the only safe thing you can do to xmlNewCharEncodingHandler is to 
> have it return the existing handler, if one is found. The caller, 
> possibly the client application code, must then deal with the fact that 
> callbacks possibly aren't the desired ones. The caller can then 
> overwrite the callbacks in the returned handler at a time and in a way 
> it knows is acceptable for the rest of application.

So the "patch" is OK and should be applied, right? 

> I still think you should never need to replace the default handlers for 
> a given encoding. Why would you want to do that?

I don't want to do that, I just had the thought, that somebody 
mightwant to do it in his program. I just thought about a few things, 
that could happen and what would be teh cause of the change to the 
xmlNewCharEncodingHandler function.

So long
Oliver