One thing I forgot to mention:
Be aware that your code uses the com.sun.star.xml.dom.XDocumentBuilder
Interface
and that is signed 'unpublished' in the IDL reference.
Which means you can't rely on it in future versions.
It might be changed or replaced or something like that.
Christian Andersson wrote:
> 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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