[XERCESJ-1041] Xerces C++ defines an encoding-string that Xerces/Java refuses to parse

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Environment: XercesC-2.3, XalanJ 2.4, Solaris 6
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dominik Stadler
• Created: 07/Feb/05 04:12
• Updated: 10/Feb/05 14:37
• Resolved: 10/Feb/05 14:37

Description

We are using Xerces C++ to create XML-Messages that are later parsed by Xerces/Java.

XercesC provides a define XMLUni::fgISO88591EncodingString for setting the encoding, the XML-Message contains the string "ISO8859-1" as encoding.

When we later use Xerces/Java to parse this file, we get the following error:

[Fatal Error] :1:43: Invalid encoding name "ISO8859-1".

It seems that Xerces/Java only knows the encoding "ISO-8859-1" (with a dash), but not "ISO8859-1" (without dash).

The XML-Specification states that "ISO-8859-1" (with a dash) SHOULD be used, look at http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#charencoding

So in my opinion either Xerces C++ should not provide that define any more, or Xerces/Java should be enhanced to accept that encoding-string. Otherwise XercesC and XercesJ differ in this part, where we until now thought they would be equal in their parsing-behavior.

I already report a Bug at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1336 that reports this for XercesC.