Hi Geert:

I recently was faced with the same problem.  Fortunately I could modify
the XML.  I used an external entity file that maps the ISO 8859-1
character set to UTF encoding.  If you are already using a DTD and have
entity declarations in the document declaration subset then you only need
to add the entity declaration and call in the entity.

Saxon is happy and I am happy.

<!DOCTYPE mydoc [
<!ENTITY % ISOCharacters SYSTEM "ISOCharacters.ent">
%ISOCharacters;
]>

I don't know if this will work on your situation!

Good luck!

Betty

> Hi all,
>
> I need to deal with XML that has this encoding="ISO8859-1",
> I am not sure about this, some parsers seem to accept it
>
> I am using Saxon command-line on a win 2008 server.
> I am using collection() since I have to combine a bunch of these XML
> into one resulting XML
>
> Saxon throws an error because of the encoding.
> I assume it is the underlying parser that does this
>
> What are my options to make Saxon accept this encoding?
>
> My last resort would be to have a Ruby or Python up front that transforms
> the
> encoding="ISO8859-1"
> into
> encoding="ISO-8859-1"
> but my customer will be hard to convince to throw yet another
> technology on his server
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Geert
>


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