Incorrect encoding in XML

[Aparna Soniminde]

Hi,

I need to convert a xml file to a HTML file. The encoding is not mentioned in the XML, so default it takes is UTF-8. I used XSL for converting XML to HTML. Below is the code sample

    
				StreamSource source = new StreamSource(xmlFilePath);
				StreamSource stylesource = new StreamSource(xslFilePath);

				TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
				Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(stylesource);

				Writer outWriter = new StringWriter();
				StreamResult result = new StreamResult(outWriter);
				transformer.transform(source, result);
				String parsedText  = outWriter.toString();

The problem is if the XML file contains any double byes characters like ¿? it throws exception
ERROR: 'com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils.WrappedRuntimeException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.'
If I mention encoding="iso-8859-1" in XML prolog, then it works fine
Is there any way to parse the XML file with doube byte characters without modifying input XML file?
Any help is really appriciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Paul Clapham]

So... the XML document doesn't declare its encoding correctly. You should tell the people who created that XML document, so they can fix up their process.

But yes, you can work around their faulty document by simply passing a Reader with the correct encoding to the parser:

Reader rdr = new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(xmlFilePath), "ISO-8859-1");
StreamSource source = new StreamSource(rdr);

[Aparna Soniminde]

Hey Paul,

Thanks for your help.
Its working fine now.

Best Regards,
Aparna