Re: SAX Parser

Peiyun Jiang writes:
> When using a SAX parser,

That seems to be pretty far off-topic.

> (1) How do you detect the encoding of the XML file? Right now, I'm
> reading the first line of the XML file and try to parse the <?xml
> ... encoding="UTF-8"?>. What if no encoding is declared?

It is either UTF-8 or UTF-16:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-guessing

> (2) How do you verify the REAL encoding of the file even if you can
> get it from <?xml ...?>?

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Kevin Rodgers