How to change default encoding of Document object?

[PATEL Ashish /FTR&D <as...@rd.francetelecom.com>]

Hi Everybody,

I am new to this group and Xerces-J. I am working on a Java Class which
creates a new Document object using available Java Beans (Data Objects). 
The class creates a new org.w3c.dom.Document object using
org.w3c.dom.DocumentType object. The created document object has default
encoding UTF-8.
I have a requirement to support unicode and for that I need to change the
encoding type of the document object. 
Is there any way by which I can change the encoding type of created document
object to a desired one?

Here is the partial code for your reference:

..........

//create a document type
DOMImplementationImpl domImpl = new DOMImplementationImpl();
String dtdPath = sBuilderProperties.getProperty("DTD_PATH")+SEPARATOR_CHAR+
dtdName;
DocumentType docType =
domImpl.createDocumentType(ROOT_ELEMENT,null,dtdPath);

 //define document with a doctype
Document preferenceDoc= new DocumentImpl(docType);
 
// create Root Element
Element root = preferenceDoc.createElement(ROOT_ELEMENT);

// create other elements
........


Thanking you in anticipation,

Ashish Patel
France Telecom R&D