General FAQs

| Questions |
| New Features? Validation International Encodings
| Answers |
| What are the new features? |
| Here are some of the new features in Xerces-J: Additional support for W3C XML Schema Language. DOS filenames no longer work. See Common Problems section of the FAQ.
| How do I turn on validation? |
| You can turn validation on and off via methods available on the SAX2 `XMLFilter` interface. While only the `SAXParser` implements the `XMLFilter` interface, the methods required for turning on validation are available to both parser classes, DOM and SAX. The code snippet below shows how to turn validation on -- assume that parser is an instance of either `org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser` or `org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser`. `parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);`
| What international encodings are supported by Xerces-J? |
| UTF-8 UTF-16 Big Endian, UTF-16 Little Endian IBM-1208 ISO Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) ISO Latin-2 (ISO-8859-2) [Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (in Latin transcription), Serbocroatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Upper and Lower Sorbian] ISO Latin-3 (ISO-8859-3) [Maltese, Esperanto] ISO Latin-4 (ISO-8859-4) ISO Latin Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5) ISO Latin Arabic (ISO-8859-6) ISO Latin Greek (ISO-8859-7) ISO Latin Hebrew (ISO-8859-8) ISO Latin-5 (ISO-8859-9) [Turkish] Extended Unix Code, packed for Japanese (euc-jp, eucjis) Japanese Shift JIS (shift-jis) Chinese (big5) Chinese for PRC (mixed 1/2 byte) (gb2312) Japanese ISO-2022-JP (iso-2022-jp) Cyrllic (koi8-r) Extended Unix Code, packed for Korean (euc-kr) Russian Unix, Cyrillic (koi8-r) Windows Thai (cp874) Latin 1 Windows (cp1252) cp858 EBCDIC encodings: EBCDIC US (ebcdic-cp-us) EBCDIC Canada (ebcdic-cp-ca) EBCDIC Netherland (ebcdic-cp-nl) EBCDIC Denmark (ebcdic-cp-dk) EBCDIC Norway (ebcdic-cp-no) EBCDIC Finland (ebcdic-cp-fi) EBCDIC Sweden (ebcdic-cp-se) EBCDIC Italy (ebcdic-cp-it) EBCDIC Spain, Latin America (ebcdic-cp-es) EBCDIC Great Britain (ebcdic-cp-gb) EBCDIC France (ebcdic-cp-fr) EBCDIC Hebrew (ebcdic-cp-he) EBCDIC Switzerland (ebcdic-cp-ch) EBCDIC Roece (ebcdic-cp-roece) EBCDIC Yugoslavia (ebcdic-cp-yu) EBCDIC Iceland (ebcdic-cp-is) EBCDIC Urdu (ebcdic-cp-ar2) Latin 0 EBCDIC EBCDIC Arabic (ebcdic-cp-ar1)