XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

At 11:17 AM -0700 7/29/03, Nils_Kilden-Pedersen AT Countrywide.Com wrote:
> Is there a way to get the encoding of a built document or to somehow read
> the XML declaration? If not, either would be useful.
> My use case is: writing a document back in the same encoding it was read.

I understand the use case, but right now that's still on the other 
side of 80/20 for me. First of all, it's extremely tricky because 
documents can have both the encoding specified in the XML declaration 
and the one actually used, and these are not necessarily the same 
thing.  Plus parsers don't reliably report either. And it doesn't 
really affect the document's content in any way. I'm trying to keep 
semantically insignificant information such as encoding out of XOM.
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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA