Importing with ObjectPAL (2)

• Now let's consider this:

  <root>here a (very) long line ...; </root>

  Now textStream.readLine () has a 32kb limit on text lines, but there is no limit to how long a "line" within an XML document can be. Actually, many code-generated XML documents look like this: just one row of text, without a single CR/LF pair
• ObjectPAL cannot simply read a file containing an ASCII NUL, yet 50% of a Unicode UCS-2 XML file is made of NUL bytes when it represents occidental scripts.
• One has to be able to support both SBCS and DBCS, as well as Unicode Transformation Formats, notably UTF-8 :

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
      <rss version="2.0">...

  An XML document needn't be straight ASCII, or even ISO8859_*, and even less Windows-1252. Plus, one must identify the actual encoding from the start: <?xml is not the same byte sequence when it is encoded as ASCII, UCS2 or UCS4.
• Lastly, one the file has been loaded to memory, one still has to really parse it: breakApart () doesn't solve that much.