Question

I have an XML file with its encoding set within it: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?> but really file is encoded in UTF-8. Is there a way to override encoding declared in XML file when unmarshalling it with JAXB?

Answer 1

You can unmarshal the content from a java.io.Reader in order to supply 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();
}

For More Information

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