I have a small problem, In starbasic I'm using (almost) the following
code (there might be small mistakes sicne I'm writing this from memory)
to read and parse an xml document with starbasic
oSFA = createUNOService ("com.sun.star.ucb.SimpleFileAccess")
oInpStream = oSFA.openFileRead(sUrl)
oDB = createUnoService("com.sun.star.xml.dom.DocumentBuilder")
domDoc = oDB.parse(oInpStream)
oInpStream.closeInput
this works for me almost perfectly, and I say almost, since there are
some xml documents that it cannot read.
the problem I am having is that some documents (that are beeing
generated by a third party system which I cannot change)
have not declared that it is an xml document like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
it just starts with the xml tags directly liek this
<test>
<test2>
.....
</test2>
</test>
this is all fine, I have other xml documents that also look liek this,
and Openoffice can read and parse them.
however within these problematic documents they are using national
characters (åæø) encoded using iso-8859-1 and this is the problem.
if they were encoded with utf-8 openoffice can read the document without
having any ecoding declaration. but with iso-8859-1 the oDB.parse
function just returns null. no errors/exceptions or anything, just null.
if I in that file manually add <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"
?> at the start, openoffice can read it perfectly..
so is there some way I can force the dom parser to use iso-8859-1
instead of utf-8 ?
it would be great if I could do
domDoc = oDB.parse(oInpStream, "iso-8859-1")
and it would work, but from what I can see there is no function for this
in the DocumentBuilder, not is there anything like this in the
inputstream object or the simplefileaccess object.
I should be able to get around this problem by programmaticly make a
copy of the file, and insert the <?... part first and then use my
modified file for reading the xml file, but this is only a last resort
sollution.
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Christian Andersson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuration and Collaboration for OpenOffice.org
Open Framework Systems AS http://www.ofs.no
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