UTF-8

[Michael Kay]

If the XML document has an encoding declaration (<?xml encoding="...."?>) then you must ensure that the file is actually encoded using this encoding.
 
If the XML document has no encoding declaration, then it should typically be encoded in UTF-8 (though there are other ways of indicating the encoding, for example using byte-order-marks, or in an HTTP header). 
 
The most common cause of encoding problems is when you use an encoding such as iso-8859-1 for your document, but have no encoding declaration on the XML document.
 
If you know the encoding of your document, you can always decode it into a character stream yourself, and then pass the character stream to the XML parser (e.g. in Java in the form of a Reader).
 
Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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From: http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk [mailto:http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk] On Behalf Of Jesus Rodrigues
Sent: 29 September 2009 17:15
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Subject:  UTF-8



Dear,




I needed read a lot of xml and some of this file haven't the attribute encoding="UTF-8". And some xml has too a problem with utf-8 (invalid character like this GA�?S). I haven't control about the xml I just needed read.




Is possible solution this problem using the saxon? For example, setting the encoding dynamically, before the build (newDocumentBuilder().build(stream))?




Regards,




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