RE: Best way to read non-utf xml documents

[Benson Cheng]

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I don't know if this is the best way or not, you can build the DOM from the input xml file and then serialize that DOM to XML by given UTF-8 encoding, here is some sampe code.   InputSource is = new InputSource(inputs);   parser.parse(is); Document document = parser.getDocument();   org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat outputFormat = new org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat();   outputFormat.setPreserveSpace(false); outputFormat.setIndenting(true); outputFormat.setIndent(4); outputFormat.setLineSeparator(System.getProperty("line.separator")); outputFormat.setLineWidth(0); outputFormat.setEncoding("utf-8");   OutputStream outArray = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); XMLSerializer serializer = new XMLSerializer(outArray, outputFormat); serializer.serialize(document); .....   Benson. -----Original Message----- From: Praveen Peddi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Best way to read non-utf xml documents I have input xml files in "windows-1252" encoding and I have to convert these into utf-8 format and send to server (server assumes that all input xml files are utf-8 encoded). When I read the files and output in utf-8 encoding, I am losing some special characters like registered marks, copy right etc.   I am reading the file in OS native encoding and outputting in utf-8 encoding (by not specifying any encoding for input stream).   Whats the best way to read non-utf8 encoded xml files and output in utf-8 encoding.   Any help would be appreciated...     Thanks Praveen   ************************************************************** Praveen Peddi Sr Software Engg, Context Media, Inc. email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:  401.854.3475 Fax:  401.861.3596 web: http://www.contextmedia.com ************************************************************** Context Media- "The Leader in Enterprise Content Integration"