Re: NSXMLParser initWIthData - Encoding?
Re: NSXMLParser initWIthData - Encoding?
- Subject: Re: NSXMLParser initWIthData - Encoding?
- From: Patrick Rutkowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 13:34:09 -0400
I really hope you're joking.
Do you really not see that it's completely non-obvious if it's supposed to be UTF-8 or UTF-16?
-Patrick
On May 21, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote:
> The name of the class makes it pretty obvious to everyone that the data is
> XML.
>
> On 05/21/2010 10:23 AM, "Patrick Rutkowski" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Milder tone? No thanks.
>>
>> Any API that accepts binary data needs to give at least a hint as to what
>> format the binary data should be. Saying that just it accepts "data" is
>> disgusting. Period, end of argument.
>>
>> Actually, maybe there is one more thing to be said:
>>
>> Perhaps if the class is something like PNGImage then you can have an
>> initWithData method which says that it accepts just "data", because in that
>> that case it's plainly obviously what format it's supposed to be. But this
>> isn't such a case.
>>
>> If you want to advocate that it's perfectly fine to omit information about the
>> format of binary data, then you're just a moron. I'm not saying that you're a
>> moron for accidentally forgetting to document it, but if you want to say (as
>> you seem to be doing) that it's OK to consciously leave it out, then you're
>> just a moron.
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
>> On May 21, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Rutkowski <email@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I find it disgusting that the doc section for NSXMLParser initWithData takes
>>>> binary data, but doesn't tell you which encoding it's supposed to be?
>>>>
>>>> Link:
>>>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/reference/foundat
>>>> ion/Classes/NSXMLParser_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm
>>>> /NSXMLParser/initWithData:
>>>>
>>>> I'm still pretty new to XML though, does the encoding always have to be
>>>> UTF-8, or perhaps always UTF-16?
>>>
>>> You find it "disgusting," yet you admit you're new? Perhaps a milder
>>> tone is warranted here?
>>>
>>>> Either way, which encoding does initWithData expect to get? Does it perhaps
>>>> detect which encoding is being used, based on the data you give it?
>>>
>>> Please read the relevant section of the XML spec, keeping in mind that
>>> it is non-normative:
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing
>>>
>>> --Kyle Sluder
>
>
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