Override declared encoding during disassembly with JAXB

Question

I have an XML file with its encoding set inside it: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?> , But the file is actually encoded in UTF-8. Is there a way to override the encoding declared in the XML file when untying it with JAXB?

Answer 1

You can untie the content with java.io.Reader to provide the actual encoding:

 Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller(); InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("input.xml"); Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8"); try { Address address = (Address) unmarshaller.unmarshal(reader); } finally { reader.close(); } 

Additional Information

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/08/jaxb-and-java-io-files-streams-readers.html