XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 10:23 PM +0100 2/5/03, Örjan Reinholdsen wrote:


> What I want to know is the character encoding of the source XML
> document. I need this information to perform transcoding correctly, e.g.
> from UTF-8 (XML default) to UCS-2.
>
> I'v looked around in the API docs and tried variouse things, but whitout
> luck. Am I missing something or is it impossible?


It's deliberately impossible. Good processes don't depend on the
encoding of the source document. You can pick any supported encoding
for output, regardless of input encoding.
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