Xalan: The org.apache.xml.serializer.Encodings Class

Sub Interfaces: java.lang.Object

Members

Overview

This class provides information about encodings. Depends on the Java runtime to provide writers for the different encodings, but can be used to override encoding names and provide the last printable character for each encoding.

Sometimes we need to override the current encoding type. This class helps to provide different to encoding types.

Method Overviews

Most of the methods in this class are static. So you can use method in this class without creating an instance of this class. It is the job of java runtime to convert to different encoding type. Most of the times, I have used  convertJava2MimeEncoding() method to convert a string into Mime type.

Example of convertJava2MimeEncoding(java.lang.String encoding):

Try the best we can to convert a Java encoding to a XML-style encoding. It takes parameters a non-null reference to encoding string, java style and returns ISO-style encoding string.

        String needstobeMimeType="Your string to be enoded into mime type";

        String newText = Encodings.convertJava2MimeEncoding(needstobeMimeType); In the above example, I have used created a Properties object using 

Example of convertMime2JavaEncoding(java.lang.String encoding):

This method does opposite to the above method. It converts mime type encoding to java type encoding.

String needstobeJavaType="Your string to be enoded into Java type";

        String newText1 = Encodings.convertMime2JavaEncoding(needstobeMimeType);

Example of getWriter(java.io.OutputStream output,                                       java.lang.String encoding)throws java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException:

Returns a writer for the specified encoding based on an output stream. If you want a Writer instance with a specified encoding type the use this method. This method helps a lot for internationalization where you will be dealing with different encoding types.

try{

            java.io.Writer writes = Encodings.getWriter(System.out, "UTF-8");

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

In my above example, I have used System.out as OutputStream and encoding UTF-8.