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Linus
xml import of utf-8 encoded file
Jun 5th, 2007, 2:18pm  
I've got a utf-8 encoded xml file which contains Scandinavian characters with which I've been attempting to import with the core xml importer but getting the following error:

processing.xml.XMLParseException: XML Parse Exception during parsing of the XML definition at line 1: Expected: <

The import works fine when the xml file is encoded in Mac Roman and the characters display, but does so only on Macs of course.
I'm a bit confused as in a Java tutorial it states that unicode is native in Java so one would think that importing a unicode encoded file would be no problem.
Anybody got an insight into this issue and been able to parse utf-8 encoded xml files
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fry
Re: xml import of utf-8 encoded file
Reply #1 - Jun 6th, 2007, 3:08pm  
you just need to specify the encoding differently for the file. it's something that i probably need to include throughout the api, since this is messier than necessary:

Code:
InputStream input = openStream("yourfile.xml");
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(input, "UTF-8");
XMLElement xml = new XMLElement(reader);
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Linus
Re: xml import of utf-8 encoded file
Reply #2 - Jun 6th, 2007, 4:56pm  
Thanks! It works like a charm now.

Just to clarify for anybody who'll stuble upon the same problem in the future, the xml files I've used have been saved as utf-8 in the Mac's TextEdit and in BBEdit as utf-8, no BOM. Any other flavour fails.
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