Change document format from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

[Mike Broadbear]

Hello,

I am creating an xml string, and posting it via http string.

I am trying to change:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">

to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1">


How do I do this?

The packages I am using are:
org.w3c.dom.*
org.apache.xerces.dom

Can anyone help me accomplish this?

Thanks.

[Paul Clapham]

The DOM packages are only half of the equation. All they allow you to do is to parse an XML document into an internal format. The other half of the equation is a serializer, which allows you to serialize the internal format into an XML document. Here is where you would specify the encoding of the new document:

TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer tx = tf.newTransformer();
tx.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "ISO-8859-1");
tx.transform(new DOMSource(yourDOM), new StreamResult(new FileOutputStream(yourFileName)));