Why my DOM parser cant read UTF-8

Question

I have problem that my DOM parser can´t load file when there are UTF-8 characters in XML file Now, i am aware that i have to give him instruction to read utf-8, but i don´t know how to put it in my code here it is:

File xmlFile = new File(fileName);
DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = dBuilder.parse(xmlFile);
doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

i am aware that there is method setencoding(), but i don´t know where to put it in my code...

Solution 1

Try this. Worked for me

        InputStream inputStream= new FileInputStream(completeFileName);
        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream,"UTF-8");
        InputSource is = new InputSource(reader);
        is.setEncoding("UTF-8");

        DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = dBuilder.parse(is);

Solution 2

Try to use Reader and provide encoding as parameter:

InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(fileName);
documentBuilder.parse(new InputSource(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8")));

Comments

[ivanz]

inputsource is in DOM API?

[ivanz]

not working or i dont know how to use it. non static method parse cannot be referenced from a static context sax

[Holger]

The second argument of the method DocumentBuilder.parse(InputStream, String) is a URI, not a character encoding. It’s rather strange when providing UTF-8 there solves any problems…

[Rajesh Mbm]

Glad to hear you found it helpful... :)