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RE: [xml-dev] root tag
- From: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG)" <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com>
- To: 'Francisco Belloso' <pac0rro@yahoo.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:44:39 -0400
Francisco Belloso wrote:
> I need to read the encoding attribute from the first
>xml tag (<?xml ... ).
> Is this possible whith SAX?. I've tried
>processingInstruction and startElement...
First, it's neither an element nor a processing instruction, but the XML
declaration[1]. I just tried a quick search of the SAX javadoc index at
sourceforge and found getEncoding(), which seems to do what you want.
The character encoding part of the XML Rec [3] provides some interesting
background on this.
Bob DuCharme www.snee.com/bob <bob@
snee.com> see http://www.snee.com/bob/xsltquickly for
info on new book "XSLT Quickly" from Manning Publications.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-prolog-dtd
[2] http://sax.sourceforge.net/apidoc/index-all.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#charencoding