Package net.sf.saxon.serialize.charcode

Interface CharacterSet

All Known Implementing Classes:

ASCIICharacterSet, ISO88591CharacterSet, JavaCharacterSet, UTF16CharacterSet, UTF8CharacterSet

public interface CharacterSet

This interface defines properties of a character set, built in to the Saxon product. This is selected in xsl:output using encoding="encoding-name", where the mapping from an encoding-name to a class is defined in CharacterSetFactory.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	getCanonicalName()	Get the preferred Java name of the character set.
boolean	inCharset(int ch)	Determine if a character is present in the character set

Method Detail

inCharset

boolean inCharset(int ch)

Determine if a character is present in the character set

getCanonicalName

java.lang.String getCanonicalName()

Get the preferred Java name of the character set. Note that Java in many cases also supports a "historic name".