Re: parsing xml from a stream

From:

"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:44:33 -0700

Message-ID:

<h769l2$c6g$1@news.eternal-september.org>

Mike Amling wrote:

Steven Simpson wrote:

Mike Schilling wrote:

This is very odd, though. If the input is ISO-8859-1, and you've
told the parser that it's ISO-8859-1, what the hell is it
complaining about malformed UTF-8 characters for? The blank lines
can't be causing it, because they'd be ASCII characters, which
have
the same values in ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8.

Something that occurs to me is that XML without an <?xml
encoding="..."

declaration at the very start has to be treated as UTF-8, unless
you

have an out-of-band setting (which the OP does). It sounds like
setCharacterEncoding() isn't being passed down to the parser (of a
stream), so it's defaulting to UTF-8.

Could there be an explicit erroneous <?xml ... encoding="UTF-8"?>
in
the stream and the parser is letting it override the xmlOptions?

Could be, though out-of-band settings are supposed to override in-band
settings. But if so, Steven's suggestion of using an
InputStreamReader to do the conversion is the right workaround.