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RE: encoding problem fixed

  • From: David Megginson <david@m...>
  • To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:10:13 -0400 (EDT)

RE: encoding problem fixed
Kay Michael writes:

 > I'm not sure about that... There was some debate when SAX was being
 > designed. There's an escape clause for XML "provided by an external
 > transport protocol" which makes it legitimate to present the parser with a
 > stream of characters rather than bytes. I've certainly found this useful
 > when the XML is stored in a database rather than a file.

Absolutely correct -- if you *know* the encoding already (or if the
characters are coming from a source where encoding is not an issue),
use a Reader; if you don't know the encoding already, use an
InputStream.  That's why SAX allows either.


All the best,


David

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