RE: Quick question about encoding

Encoding characters to bytes is the last stage of the serialization process.
If you write to a character destination rather than a binary destination then
this stage is skipped: Saxon writes Unicode characters to the StringWriter,
and the requested encoding has no effect. It would only have an effect if you
wrote to a binary destination such as an OutputStream.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bartolomeo Nicolotti [mailto:bnicolotti@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 February 2010 15:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Quick question about encoding
>
> Hello,
>
> I use saxon as a xslt 2.0 engine in Java with code that uses
> simple strings like:
> 		//create transformer
> 1)		TransformerFactory tfactory = getTransformerFactory();
> 2)		Transformer transformer =
> tfactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(xslt));
> 		//set encoding
> 3)
> transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "ISO-8859-1");
> 4)	        StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
> 5)	        Result result = new StreamResult(sw);
>
> 		//transorm
> 6)	        transformer.transform( new StreamSource(new
> StringReader(xml_in)), result);
>
> 		//obtain translated
> 7)		String translated_str = sw.toString();
>
> As here we've all Java strings has line 3) some effect?
> Shouldn't be all the Java String object UNICODE?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Best regards
>
> Bartolomeo Nicolotti
>
>
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