Re: [xsl] How to read the encoding of an XML document

[James Garriss <jpgarriss@xxxxxxxx>]

At 04:29 PM 10/25/2001 -0400, Thomas B. Passin wrote:

> Yes.  At least, any xml processor would be able to handle either utf-8 or
> utf-16.  What may be displayed by a browser or word processor, though (if
> you transform it into a displayable document), is another question.  utf-8
> might be a better choice depending on what is going to consume it.

"Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> All XML parsers are required to read UTF-8 and UTF-16 data.

They are required to read, but what character encoding sets are they 
required to save to?

I am using Xalan-J 1.0.0 and Xerces-J 1.0.3 (with JRE 1.2), but when I have 
this in my XSL:

  < xsl:output indent="no" method="xml" encoding="UTF-16"/ >

I get the following error:

  org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLProcessorException: Unsupported encoding: UTF-16

Can anyone confirm for me that Xerces does not support UTF-16?

Of course this isn't the most current version of Xerces.  Maybe I need to 
upgrade?

--James


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