hi Daryl,
thanks for your help. the VMS xml file declares this at the beginning:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
the VMS system is really old, how can i verify what encoding the file
it creates really is?...
is there a way to take any file (not know what encoding it is) and
convert it into an encoding that i specify?
my current java code is the following:
mySAXFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
mySAXParser = mySAXFactory.newSAXParser();
mySAXParser.parse(new File("VMS_export_data.xml"), this);
i've been doing some research and it seems i can use InputStreamReader
to convert a file into Unicode. BUT you need to tell it what encoding
the file is currently in (which i don't know)...
any ideas?
woodchuck
--- "Conley, Daryl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ensure that the Character encoding is what it says it is at the top
> of the
> XML file. VMS may be using a different code page. When you open it
> in
> notepad Windows may be doing some converion on it when you save the
> file.
>
> daryl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Woodchuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: September 21, 2004 11:57 AM
> To: xerces
> Subject: SAX parser anomaly
>
>
> hihi all,
>
> i have no clue why this is happening.
>
> whenever i try to parse an xml file (generated by legacy VMS system)
> i
> get SAXExceptions thrown.
>
> HOWEVER, if i copy the contents of that same xml file and paste it
> into
> a new xml file (using notepad), this new xml file parses no problems
> whatsoever.
>
> i have analyzed the legacy generated xml file to death (file compare
> utilities, hex editor, line by line diff utilities) but as far as i
> can
> tell they are the same.
>
> can anyone shed light on this obscure anomaly? i want to save what
> little sanity i have left...
>
> please and thanks,
> woodchuck
>
> (should i post to the xerces developer list?)
>
>
>
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