How to get the encoding of a XML file ...

Hi,
How do you get the encoding of a XML file?
For example,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="SJIS"?>
I am trying to retrieve the above encoding="SJIS", but I can't seem to locate the API for doing so.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Eric

Hi ddossot,
Thanks for your suggestion.
However, the xerces.jar file that comes with my old tomcat server is an old version and thus, the getEncoding method is not even present in the DocumentImpl class. The option to update to a newer version of tomcat and xerces is not available. What a pity... :-(
Well, I just have to try to find a way around. Worst case scenario, parse the first line in the xml file myself.
Regards,
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