Hello,
   I am new to java and I run a short program processing xml files.
   Everything ran very well until I received xml files with the character
itself instead of its numerical reference (for instance 'é' instead of
'é'). I thought java would handle it but unexpectedly, it handles it
under DOS but doesn't handle it under Linux !
   Do you have any explanations ?
Input file :
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<values>
   <value>détail</value>
   <value>d&#xe9;tail</value>
</values>
Java program :
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package javaapplication2;
import java.io.*;
import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.*;
import java.util.*;
public class Main extends DefaultHandler  {
   private String CData;
   // Encodage
   static String encoding;
   private Writer out;
   public Main(String[] args) {
       super();
       encoding = "ISO-8859-15";
       try {
           XMLReader xr = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
           xr.setContentHandler( this );
           out = new OutputStreamWriter(new
FileOutputStream("out.txt"),encoding);
           InputSource input = null;
           input =  new InputSource(new FileReader("file.xml"));
           xr.parse(input);
           out.close();
       }catch ( Exception e ) {
           e.printStackTrace();
       }
   }
   public static void main(String[] args) {
       // TODO code application logic here
       Main main = new Main(args);
   }
   //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   // Méthodes du parser
   //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   public void startElement( String namespaceURI, String localName, String
qName, Attributes attr ) throws SAXException {
       CData = new String("");
  }
   public void characters(char[] chars, int iStart, int iLen) {
       CData = CData + new String(chars, iStart, iLen);
   }
   public void endElement( String namespaceURI,String localName,String
qName ) throws SAXException {
       if (localName.equals( "value" )) {
           try{
               out.write(CData+"\n");
           }catch ( Exception e ) {
              e.printStackTrace();
           }
           return;
       }
   }
}
Result if run from DOS
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détail
détail
Result if run from Linux
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d?tail
détail

   Thanks in advance,
Ghislain