[jdom-interest] how to discover the encoding of an XML

Jason Hunter jhunter at xquery.com
Fri Jul 23 09:47:23 PDT 2004


SAX doesn't provide this information.  SAX decodes the information but 
doesn't report on what encoding was used.  So SAXBuilder doesn't have 
that information available to it.

-jh-

Terenzio Berni wrote:

> It is possible to know what encoding was used while building a Document 
> (via SaxBuilder).
> ie:
> I have an XML that starts with the declaration:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> and I need to know that the encoding used was UTF-8.
> 
> Regards, Terenzio



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