PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset Class Reference

Public Member Functions
	encodeEntities ($data, $srcEncoding='', $destEncoding='')
	Convert a string to the correct XML representation in a target charset.
	getEntities ($charset)
	Used only for backwards compatibility.
	isValidCharset ($encoding, $validList)
	Checks if a given charset encoding is present in a list of encodings or if it is a valid subset of any encoding in the list.

Static Public Member Functions
static	instance ()
	This class is singleton for performance reasons.

Protected Member Functions
	__construct ()
	Force usage as singleton.
	buildConversionTable ($tableName)

Protected Attributes
	$charset_supersets
	$xml_iso88591_Entities = array("in" => array(), "out" => array())

Static Protected Attributes
static Charset	$instance = null
	$instance

Member Function Documentation

buildConversionTable()

PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset::buildConversionTable ( $tableName )

protected

Parameters

string

$tableName

Exceptions

Exception

for unsupported $tableName

Todo

add support for cp1252 as well as latin-2 .. latin-10 Optimization creep: instead of building all those tables on load, keep them ready-made php files which are not even included until needed

should we add to the latin-1 table the characters from cp_1252 range, i.e. 128 to 159 ? Those will NOT be present in true ISO-8859-1, but will save the unwary windows user from sending junk (though no luck when receiving them...) Note also that, apparently, while 'ISO/IEC 8859-1' has no characters defined for bytes 128 to 159, IANA ISO-8859-1 does have well-defined 'C1' control codes for those - wikipedia's page on latin-1 says: "ISO-8859-1 is the IANA preferred name for this standard when supplemented with the C0 and C1 control codes from ISO/IEC 6429." Check what mbstring/iconv do by default with those?

encodeEntities()

PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset::encodeEntities	(		$data,
			$srcEncoding = '',
			$destEncoding = '' )

Convert a string to the correct XML representation in a target charset.

This involves:

• character transformation for all characters which have a different representation in source and dest charsets
• using 'charset entity' representation for all characters which are outside of the target charset

To help correct communication of non-ascii chars inside strings, regardless of the charset used when sending requests, parsing them, sending responses and parsing responses, an option is to convert all non-ascii chars present in the message into their equivalent 'charset entity'. Charset entities enumerated this way are independent of the charset encoding used to transmit them, and all XML parsers are bound to understand them.

Note that when not sending a charset encoding mime type along with http headers, we are bound by RFC 3023 to emit strict us-ascii for 'text/xml' payloads (but we should review RFC 7303, which seems to have changed the rules...)

Todo

do a bit of basic benchmarking (strtr vs. str_replace)

make usage of iconv() or mb_string() where available

support aliases for charset names, eg ASCII, LATIN1, ISO-88591 (see f.e. polyfill-iconv for a list), but then take those into account as well in other methods, ie.isValidCharset)

when converting to ASCII, allow to choose whether to escape the range 0-31,127 (non-print chars) or not

allow picking different strategies to deal w. invalid chars? eg. source in latin-1 and chars 128-159

add support for escaping using CDATA sections? (add cdata start and end tokens, replace only ']]>' with ']]]]>>')

Parameters

string	$data
string	$srcEncoding
string	$destEncoding

Return values

string

getEntities()

PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset::getEntities

(

$charset

)

Used only for backwards compatibility.

Deprecated

Parameters

string

$charset

Return values

array

Exceptions

Exception

for unknown/unsupported charsets

instance()

static PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset::instance ( )

static

This class is singleton for performance reasons.

Todo

should we just make $xml_iso88591_Entities a static variable instead ?

Return values

Charset

isValidCharset()

PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset::isValidCharset	(		$encoding,
			$validList )

Checks if a given charset encoding is present in a list of encodings or if it is a valid subset of any encoding in the list.

Parameters

string	$encoding	charset to be tested
string | array	$validList	comma separated list of valid charsets (or array of charsets)

Return values

bool

Member Data Documentation

$charset_supersets

PhpXmlRpc\Helper\Charset::$charset_supersets

protected

Initial value:

= array(
        'US-ASCII' => array('ISO-8859-1', 'ISO-8859-2', 'ISO-8859-3', 'ISO-8859-4',
            'ISO-8859-5', 'ISO-8859-6', 'ISO-8859-7', 'ISO-8859-8',
            'ISO-8859-9', 'ISO-8859-10', 'ISO-8859-11', 'ISO-8859-12',
            'ISO-8859-13', 'ISO-8859-14', 'ISO-8859-15', 'UTF-8',
            'EUC-JP', 'EUC-', 'EUC-KR', 'EUC-CN',),
    )

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• lib/phpxmlrpc/Helper/Charset.php