Detect XML document encodings with SAX

[Gene Wirchenko]

[snip]

If you don't want input files, then ask for a MSSSCCE and link ^^^^^^^
to the rules for that.

Please expand your new acronym.

MarkSpace SSCCE

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 

[Lew]

????

Steven Simpson solved the problem with the provided information.

And OP acknowledged it.

I stand corrected.

 

[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:32:19 +0100, /Sebastian/:

I discovered this post:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-tipsaxxni/

and implemented both approaches (SAX and Xerces XNI).

Unfortunately, for the attached XML file, both methods
output an encoding of UTF-8, while looking at the file
makes it clear that it is not UTF-8 encoded (all characters,
including the umlaut and the Euro-sign, take one byte, and the
declared encoding also is not UTF-8).

Does anyone have an idea why that is so? And how I could
go about making some XML parser determine the correct encoding?

Sorry if this has been answered already elsewhere in the thread.
The XML specification has a guideline for detecting the source encoding:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-guessing

and this is basically what parsers do. One-byte encodings are
basically indistinguishable from each other and they could be only
reliably detected in presence of an explicit encoding
information/declaration.