Writing XML in different character encodings with Java
- by Roman Myers
I am attempting to write an XML library file that can be read again into my program.
The file writer code is as follows:
XMLBuilder builder = new XMLBuilder();
Document doc = builder.build(bookList);
DOMImplementation impl = doc.getImplementation();
DOMImplementationLS implLS = (DOMImplementationLS) impl.getFeature("LS", "3.0");
LSSerializer ser = implLS.createLSSerializer();
String out = ser.writeToString(doc);
//System.out.println(out);
try{
FileWriter fstream = new FileWriter(location);
BufferedWriter outwrite = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
outwrite.write(out);
outwrite.close();
}catch (Exception e){
}
The above code does write an xml document.
However, in the XML header, it is an attribute that the file is encoded in UTF-16.
when i read in the file, i get the error:
"content not allowed in prolog"
this error does not occur when the encoding attribute is manually changed to UTF-8.
I am trying to get the above code to write an XML document encoded in UTF-8, or successfully parse a UTF-16 file.
the code for parsing in is
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder loader = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = loader.parse(filename);
the last line returns the error.
