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- From: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
Kay Michael writes:
> I'm not sure about that... There was some debate when SAX was being
> designed. There's an escape clause for XML "provided by an external
> transport protocol" which makes it legitimate to present the parser with a
> stream of characters rather than bytes. I've certainly found this useful
> when the XML is stored in a database rather than a file.
Absolutely correct -- if you *know* the encoding already (or if the
characters are coming from a source where encoding is not an issue),
use a Reader; if you don't know the encoding already, use an
InputStream. That's why SAX allows either.
All the best,
David
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