Re: The root element is required... [was Re: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0)...]

[Gary Kephart <ga...@emotion.com>]

Eric Ye wrote:

> Your new approach still didn't solve the Byte Order Mark problem.
>
> You have to convert the byte stream to be UTF-8 encoded and strip off the 2
> byte order mark bytes (0xFE 0xFF or 0xFF 0xFE) in the very beginning after
> the detection of byte order.
>
> or you 'll need to ask the source of the stream to add encoding decl, it
> would be a very reasonable request because the file you received from the
> socket is not even a well-formed xml file.

Thanks for your help. I'm glad there's people out there who help us XML newbies.

It seems, though, all I needed to do is call

inputStream.setEncoding("UnicodeBig")

and all of a sudden my program could read from the socket.
It looks as though Java already has some IO set up for this type of encoding. I
eventually found my answers in the following URLs:

http://grove.ufl.edu/usr/share/doclib/java/api/Package-sun.io.html
http://grove.ufl.edu/usr/share/doclib/java/api/sun.io.CharToByteUnicodeBig.html#_top_

http://grove.ufl.edu/usr/share/doclib/java/api/sun.io.CharToByteUnicodeBigUnmarked.html#_top_

Gary
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