Re: asymmetry between serialzier and parser inwritingXMLDecl

At 11:52 AM -0400 8/27/02, Aleksander Slominski wrote:


>  # encoding: obtained from getInputEncoding()
>         null if stream had unknown encoding (not set in setInputStream)
>             and it was not declared in XMLDecl
>

This one's tricky. The stream did have some encoding, even if it 
wasn't declared, or you couldn't have decoded it. So you might want 
to use "UTF-8" here instead of null.

You also have to consider the possibility that the declared encoding 
is not the actual encoding. This is possible in the presence of 
external metadata such as an HTTP header which identifies the 
encoding. For instance, even if the document is written in SJIS while 
the encoding declaration specifies "UTF-16" the document might still 
be successfully parsed if the metadata says SJIS.
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