net.sf.saxon.charcode
Class CharacterSetFactory

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.charcode.CharacterSetFactory

public class CharacterSetFactory
extends Object

This class delivers a CharacterSet object for a given named encoding. It maintains a mapping from character set names to class names, and a separate mapping from character set names to instances of those classes. This means that a class is not actually instantiated until the encoding is used, but once instantiated, the same instance is used whenever that encoding is used again in the same Configuration. Note that the purpose of the CharacterSet object is only to record which Unicode characters are represented in the encoding, so that non-encodable characters can be represented as XML or HTML character references. The actual translation from Unicode codepoints to bytes in the chosen encoding is left to the Java IO library.

Constructor Summary

CharacterSetFactory()
Class has a single instance per Configuration

Method Summary

CharacterSet	getCharacterSet(Properties details) Make a CharacterSet appropriate to the encoding
static void	main(String[] args) Main program is a utility to give a list of the character sets supported by the Java VM
void	setCharacterSetImplementation(String encoding, CharacterSet charSet) Register an implementation of a character set, using the class name

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CharacterSetFactory

public CharacterSetFactory()

Class has a single instance per Configuration

Method Detail

setCharacterSetImplementation

public void setCharacterSetImplementation(String encoding,
                                          CharacterSet charSet)

Register an implementation of a character set, using the class name

Parameters:

encoding - the name of the character set

charSet - the name of a class that implements CharacterSet

getCharacterSet

public CharacterSet getCharacterSet(Properties details)
                             throws XPathException

Make a CharacterSet appropriate to the encoding

Parameters:

details - the serialization properties

Returns:

the constructed CharacterSet

Throws:

XPathException

main

public static void main(String[] args)
                 throws Exception

Main program is a utility to give a list of the character sets supported by the Java VM

Parameters:

args - command line arguments

Throws:

Exception