> How can the original encoding in a document be accessed via JDOM? Don't see
> any method calls concerning the encoding setting except with the output
> formatter.

Sadly you can't because SAX doesn't expose this.

> Also, is there are way to set the default encoding to something other than
> UTF-8?

XMLOutputter takes a Format object that has a setEncoding() method.

-jh-

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