13.12.4 InputSource Objects

setPublicId(id): Sets the public identifier of this InputSource.

getPublicId(): Returns the public identifier of this InputSource.

setSystemId(id): Sets the system identifier of this InputSource.

getSystemId(): Returns the system identifier of this InputSource.

setEncoding(encoding)

Sets the character encoding of this InputSource.

The encoding must be a string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration (see section 4.3.3 of the XML recommendation).

The encoding attribute of the InputSource is ignored if the InputSource also contains a character stream.

getEncoding(): Get the character encoding of this InputSource.

setByteStream(bytefile)

Set the byte stream (a Python file-like object which does not perform byte-to-character conversion) for this input source.

The SAX parser will ignore this if there is also a character stream specified, but it will use a byte stream in preference to opening a URI connection itself.

If the application knows the character encoding of the byte stream, it should set it with the setEncoding method.

getByteStream(): Get the byte stream for this input source.
The getEncoding method will return the character encoding for this byte stream, or None if unknown.

setCharacterStream(charfile): Set the character stream for this input source. (The stream must be a Python 1.6 Unicode-wrapped file-like that performs conversion to Unicode strings.)
If there is a character stream specified, the SAX parser will ignore any byte stream and will not attempt to open a URI connection to the system identifier.

getCharacterStream(): Get the character stream for this input source.

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