Hi Michael, Thanks for the quick reply, I had downloaded the code for version 2.0.2 as this is what was embedded within the application I was debugging. When I searched on google I didn't find any reference to this problem so I never though to check the latest version for the fix - doh!
Thanks all the same Alistair 2008/6/24 Michael Glavassevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Alistair, > > You must be using an ancient version of Xerces. This particular problem was > fixed way back in 2002. > > Try using the latest release (2.9.1) available here: > http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/download.cgi. > > Thanks. > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Parser Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Ali Seaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 06/24/2008 12:33:55 PM: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to the list I just thought this issue should be raised. I > > was receiving an error from Tomcat when is was parsing an XML document. > > > > The XML document was using a standard latin encoding 8859-1 declared > > in this way: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> > > > > Error received: > > > > org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid encoding name "iso-8859-1". > > > > i knew iso-8859-1 was not an invalid encoding so I checked the code > > to see what was going on. Inside the method org.apache.xerces.impl. > > XMLEntityManager.createReader an upper case representation of the > > encoding is created with a toUpperCase(). In a turkish locale a > > small 'i' becomes a Turkish 'I' with a dot on it hence subsequent > > checking of the encoding against the pre-defined valid lists fails. > > > > My suggestion would be that the toUpperCase should be called with > > the overload that allows the specification of a english locale and > > hence creating the correct 'I' > > > > Thanks > > > > Alistair >
