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Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX

From	Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX
Date	2012-11-22 07:53 +0000
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On 22/11/12 07:18, markspace wrote:
> On 11/21/2012 10:41 PM, Sebastian wrote:
>>
>> The answer cannot be that windows-1250 is non-standard. In fact, the
>> declared encoding of the XML file does not seem to matter. The code will
>> always output "UTF-8".
>>
>
> Maybe this quote from the article will help you out:
>
> "This approach works 90 percent of the time, maybe a little more. But 
> SAX parsers aren't required to support the Locator interface, much 
> less Locator2, and a few don't. A second option, if you know you're 
> using Xerces, is to work with XNI"
>
>
> Since the output of the program is "unknown", I'd guess that this 
> particular SAX parser doesn't support Locator2, like it says.

Like the OP, I'm getting "UTF-8", and tracing in the code shows that it 
is getting a Locator2.


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Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-21 15:32 +0100
  Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 11:31 -0800
    Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-22 00:39 +0100
      Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 16:37 -0800
        Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-22 07:41 +0100
          Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-21 23:18 -0800
            Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-11-22 07:53 +0000
              Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-22 08:31 -0800
            Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-23 21:21 -0500
    Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-23 21:11 -0500
    Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-23 21:20 -0500
      Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-11-24 02:14 -0800
        Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-24 22:18 +0100
          Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-24 17:07 -0500
            Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-25 10:50 +0100
          Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-24 17:12 -0800
            Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-24 20:17 -0500
              Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-24 18:02 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-24 21:10 -0500
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-24 18:25 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-24 21:37 -0500
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-24 21:01 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-25 16:30 -0500
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2012-12-12 18:03 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-12 21:09 -0500
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 18:58 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-12 22:17 -0500
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-12 22:51 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2012-12-12 21:52 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-25 10:45 +0100
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-25 16:23 -0500
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX markspace <-@.> - 2012-11-25 13:24 -0800
                Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-25 10:58 +0100
        Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-24 17:13 -0500
        Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-24 17:19 -0500
  Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-11-22 03:24 -0800
    Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet2@hjp.at> - 2012-11-24 00:13 +0100
      Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-23 21:22 -0500
  Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Steven Simpson <ss@domain.invalid> - 2012-11-25 11:00 +0000
    Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Sebastian <sebastian@undisclosed.invalid> - 2012-11-25 12:32 +0100
    Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-11-25 14:41 -0500
  Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-12 20:32 -0800
  Re: Detect XML document encodings with SAX Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net> - 2012-12-16 17:43 +0200

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