OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

That's why.  When you use the LSSerializer it encodes to the character 
set of the destination.  In this case the Java String class, which is 
UTF-16 (mostly).  There isn't a way you can change this, and you 
shouldn't try.  The string really is UTF-16 encoded.

If you want a different encoding you use the serializer and write to a 
Writer for which you have specified a different encoding character set.

There are methods on XMLHelper to help with this.

Prasanna Krishna wrote:
> ----- Sample code for base 64 encoding
>
>
>     private String getBase64SAML(Element authElement) throws Exception {
>         try {
>             // Serialize to string
>             DOMImplementationRegistry registry = DOMImplementationRegistry
>                     .newInstance();
>             DOMImplementationLS impl = (DOMImplementationLS) registry
>                     .getDOMImplementation("LS");
>             LSSerializer writer = impl.createLSSerializer();
>             String str = writer.writeToString(authElement);
>
>             str = Base64.encode(str.getBytes());
>
>             return str;
>         } catch (Exception x) {
>             throw new Exception(x);
>         }
>     }


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