encoding problem for sample DTD personal.dtd

[Shaoping Zhou]

I noticed that IE5 cannot correctly process personal.xml because it cannot recognize the encoding scheme "US-ASCII". After I changed "US-ASCII" to "UTF-8", it worked under IE5.   My sample program had the same experience, basically it was able to parse the xml data file personal.xml after I changed encoding to UTF-8. The listing of the code is as follows:     public static void main(String[] args) {     ParserSample1 parserSample1 = new ParserSample1();     parserSample1.invokedStandalone = true;     String xmlFile = "F:\\xercesJ\\xerces-1_0_0\\data\\personal.xml";       DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();       try {       parser.parse(xmlFile);       } catch (SAXException se) {       se.printStackTrace();     } catch (IOException ioe) {         ioe.printStackTrace();     }     // The next line is only for DOM Parsers     Document doc = parser.getDocument();       Node myNode = null;       // work with element     Element myElement = doc.getDocumentElement();     NodeList myNodeList myNodeList = myElement.getChildNodes();     System.out.println("NodeList length = " + myNodeList.getLength());     for (int i = 0; i < myNodeList.getLength(); i++)     {       myNode = myNodeList.item(i);       System.out.println(myNode.getNodeName());       System.out.println(myNode.getNodeValue());     }     }   I am fairly new to the XML stuff, could someone point out what is going on?   regards, -Shaoping Zhou