XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Ed Davies <edavies AT nildram.co.uk>]

Angela Amoateng wrote:
> > Will it also be able to 
> > read Japanese characters (unicode) too? 

Ed Davies wrote:
> I've never tried that specifically but I really think
> it's supposed to and I'd be very surprised if it didn't.
> Give it a try.  That's one of the great advantages of
> free software - it only costs you a short learning
> period to find out if it's right for what you want to
> do.

Sorry, curiosity got the better of me...

File h.java:

import nu.xom.*;
import java.io.*;

public class h {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParsingException, 
IOException {
        
        Builder builder = new Builder(false);
        Document doc = builder.build(System.in, "http://example.com/";);
        Element root = doc.getRootElement();
        System.out.println("We got the string '" + root.getValue() + "'");
    }
}

File t:

<hi>あき</hi>

Linux commands:

export CLASSPATH=.:/usr/local/lib/xom-1.1/xom-1.1.jar
javac h.java && java h < t

Prints:

We got the string 'あき'

Both the files, the output and this message are in
UTF-8, of course.

I haven't got the faintest idea if those two symbols
in that order have any meaning at all so if they do
and it's obscene don't blame me :-).

Ed.