Reading special characters with revXMLNodeContents

[mjaspaert]

In an XML-File I've the following part
<headline>FOKUS 1-Tochter stoppt Vorstoß des Ölmultis BP in die Arktis</headline>
when I try to read this data with the following statement:
local tHeadLine
put revXMLNodeContents(pTree, "newsMessage/itemSet/newsItem/contentMeta/headline") into tHeadLine
I get in the variable "tHeadLine" the following text:
FOKUS 1-Tochter stoppt Vorstoß des Ölmultis BP in die Arktis

How i it possible to read with "revXMLNodeContents" and holding the spezial characaters ??

[Mark]

Hi mjaspaert,

Probably, you XML file is encoded as UTF8 (or maybe UTF16) and externals don't work with data that contains binary characters. Try encoding it as Windows Latin or MacRoman (depending on your OS) using the following syntax:

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put url "binfile://path/to/xml.file" into myXMLData
put unidecode(uniencode(myXMLData,"UTF8"),"English") into myXMLData

Replace UTF8 with UTF16 if your file is encoded as UTF16. Now you should be able to use myXMLData with the external.

Another possibility is that your XML file is ancoded as MacRoman while you are on a Windows PC, which means that LiveCode expects Windows Latin. To convert the file from Mac to Win you can use

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put macToIso(myXMLData) into myXMLData

and to convert from Win to Mac use

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put isoToMac(myXMLData) into myXMLData

Kind regards,

Mark

[mjaspaert]

hello mark,

thank you for this hint. It works fine.

regards marcel