Hi,
>>Is there any way i can catch this using xalan.( iam using xpath
>>functionality of xalan so just want to know whether i can extend any of
>>xalan features for spotting invalid encoding char )
By the time the file has been parsed, it's been converted to a Java
string, which no longer has the encoding of the original file (it's UTF-16).
You need to address this in your original file, either by setting the encoding
to what it really is (if you have characters outside of ISO-8859-1 then it's
not really encoded as ISO-8859-1) or by encoding the non-ISO characters as
unicode entities.
>Alternatively, you should be able to use the getBytes("ISO-8859-1")
>method on a string in java that will throw an
>UnsupportedEncodingException and catch that.
I don't think this does quite what you expect.
UnsupportedEncodingException will be thrown if the requested encoding is
unknown. Characters that are not supported by a known encoding turn into "?".
Chris
