SaxParser exception and Apache

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/XML/Q_20948390.html

The client is the same... the only difference is the HTTP protocol version due to the Apache between Jrun Server and the client... if i request the resource directly to the Jrun Server, the xml is parsed correctly.

Can i force sax to parse an xml with a certain encoding (in this case ISO-8859-1)?

@hoomanv: that's not my case, beacause my XML is NOT UTY-8 encoded.
As you can see from charset=ISO-8859-1 and encoding="iso-8859-1" I want sax parse it using latin-western charset...
But it seems to use UTF-8 instead. Why?

How do you create InputSource for your parser? Could encoding be messed at this point?

Try to use InputSource(Reader) constructor and pass desired encoding to reader constructor

Verify your Apache configuration file (httpd.conf). Apache might be converting your xml file.

should Content-Type be text/xml or application/xml ?

It should be application/xml for xml files

>> But it seems to use UTF-8 instead. Why?

Can we see some of the parsing code?

Here an extract of the code used to parse the xml...

SAXParser parser = getSAXParser();
URL url = new URL(u);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
parser.parse(is, handler);

I noted that if i use an InputStreamReader the method getEncoding() returns "ASCII", but i don't know if it's related or not with my problem...

I think that's because its the default used by the platform. Perhaps that's the problem with JRun too....

Can you try using the setProperty () method of SAXParser to set the encoding explicity to what you want, before you call parse ()? I'm not sure if it is possible but might be worth exploring.

Ok thank you all for your effort, but i think I found the solution.

The method getInputStream() seems to ignore the encoding when using HTTP1.1.

I'm using this code as a workaround (it preserves the encoding)

InputStream in = conn.getInputStream();
byte[] tmp = new byte[512];

ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
int bytesRead = in.read(tmp);

while (bytesRead != -1) {
      out.write(tmp, 0, bytesRead);
      bytesRead = in.read(tmp);
}
in.close();

byte[] data = out.toByteArray();
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
parser.parse(bais, handler);

Comments and suggestion welcomed.
Andrea

You can convert a byte-array output stream to a String using:

String contents = out.toString ( encoding ) ; // here, you can specify the encoding

Then you can use that as your initial contents for parsing.

Its ok, but make sure you specify the encoding as I'd suggested.