[jdom-interest] encoding problem with xmloutputter

[manish sharan]

Hi,

I am creating a Jdom Document from a web page such as www.cnn.com (good 
example as it uses ‘•’ character for bullet points ) by first passing 
the page through jtidy and then into JDOM.  I am able to build the 
org.jdom.Document object without any problems. Now, my goal is to save this 
on my local drive and read it with my browser. Enncoding in ISO-8859-1 is a 
requirement

The problem is that when I open the saved jdom object file  in IE browser, I 
see a lot of weird characters. www.Cnn.com has a lot of bulleted items and 
the bullets (dots) are shown as some weird characters.  When I switch the 
encoding of the browser to UTF-8., this file displays ok.   The problem is 
that this behavior is unexpected as I am explicitly setting the encoding to 
ISO-8859-1.

This is my code for XML Outputter

	 org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter xmlOutputter = new XMLOutputter();
            xmlOutputter.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
            xmlOutputter.setOmitDeclaration(true) ;
            xmlOutputter.setOmitEncoding(true) ;
            ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            //  I have tried ISO8859_1 and ISO-8859-1 ,
	    OutputStreamWriter osw=new OutputStreamWriter(output,"ISO8859_1") ;
            xmlOutputter.output(jdoc, osw);
            jdomStr= output.toString("ISO8859_1");

         // this is the parT where I save the Dom:

         DataOutputStream dos= new DataOutputStream(new 
FileOutputStream(fileName));
         //  I have tried ISO8859_1 and ISO-8859-1 ,
        OutputStreamWriter osw=new OutputStreamWriter(dos,"ISO8859_1") ;
        osw.write(s,0,s.length() );


When I open this file in browser, I see weird characters in place of bullet 
points, until I explicity set the encoding in the browser to utf-8.

Can someone please tell me why is encoding not working ? How can I get it to 
work ?I will deeply appreciate any help !!

I am using JDOM beta 9 and JDK 1.4.1_02.
Regards
-manish

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