Re: [Classpathx-xml] ReaderInputStream vs XmlParser declared and detected encodings

[Chris Burdess]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 16:46, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > But this seems a deeper problem with handling InputStream <-> Reader
> > interaction combined with XML documents that declare their own 
> > encoding.
> > I don't have a clue how to handle it properly though since when you 
> > use
> > a Reader you do that to hide the underlying encoding in the first 
> > place,
> > so it doesn't mix well with documents declaring their own encoding
> > format...

Right. XML doesn't make a lot of sense with Readers, and I consider the 
specification of character streams in the SAX and JAXP APIs to be a 
design error.

> Sigh. And indeed I ran into some more problems like these.
> Attached is a patch that got me a little further.
>
> There is one bugfix not related to Readers/InputStreams, encoders and
> friends in gnu/xml/libxmlj/transform/GnomeTransformer.java for the case
> source == null (plus some extra code to make debugging easier).

Thanks!
--
Chris Burdess