Re: [Qexo-general] Strange special character problem

[Per Bothner]

Markus Skistad wrote:
> I'm using kawa-1.8 against a ISO-8859-1 xml document.

Without a testcase I can't tell if the problem is the the XMLPrinter
(as you hypothesize), but I actually suspect the XML parser.

Kawa's builtin XML parser is rather basic.  It doesn't handle
byte->character handling, but uses the standard Java Reader support.
It specifically does not handle encoding declarations.

Of course one could fix the Kawa XML parser to be more conformant.
but I don't think that makes sense.  Better to switch to using a
more conformant XML parser - specifically a parser conformant to
JAXP.  Since JDK 1.4 comes with a standard XML parser, we should
use that, when available.

The existing Kawa parser is useful as an option, when JAXP isn't
available or when one needs a quick and dirty XML parser.  There
should be a way to select a parser, but the default should be
the JAXP parser when it is available.

This would also give us the option of validation.

I'm not very familiar with JAXP and I haven't had time to spend
on this so far.  A volunteer to look into this would be appreciated.
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