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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:59:46 -0400
David Brownell wrote:
> As I noted elsewhere, a better guideline is always to pass a URI to
> the InputSource, and only use I/O streams (Reader or InputStream)
> with exquisite care. Reader in the case of data whose encoding is
> externally tagged (e.g. MIME entities or database contents); and if
> the encoding isn't externally recorded, _only then_ use InputStream.
Note that SAX lets you pass an InputStream and a media type together;
this is useful if you know the type and don't have an URI. This may
be more efficient than instantiating your own InputStreamReader,
depending on the parser.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau / Und trank die Milch vom Paradies.
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