Added in [API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels) Summary: [Methods](https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2#pubmethods) \| [Inherited Methods](https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2#inhmethods)

# Locator2


`
public


interface
Locator2
`


`


implements

https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator


`

|---|
| org.xml.sax.ext.Locator2 |

Known indirect subclasses [Locator2Impl](https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2Impl) [Locator2Impl](https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2Impl) SAX2 extension helper for holding additional Entity information, implementing the `https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2` interface.   

*** ** * ** ***

SAX2 extension to augment the entity information provided
though a `https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator`.
If an implementation supports this extension, the Locator
provided in `https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ContentHandler#setDocumentLocator(org.xml.sax.Locator)` will implement this
interface, and the
*http://xml.org/sax/features/use-locator2* feature
flag will have the value *true*.

> *This module, both source code and documentation, is in the
> Public Domain, and comes with **NO WARRANTY**.*

XMLReader implementations are not required to support this
information, and it is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions.

<br />

## Summary

| ### Public methods ||
|---|---|
| ` abstract https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String` | ` https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2#getEncoding()() ` Returns the name of the character encoding for the entity. |
| ` abstract https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String` | ` https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/ext/Locator2#getXMLVersion()() ` Returns the version of XML used for the entity. |

### Inherited methods

From interface `

https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator

` `
abstract


int` `
https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator#getColumnNumber()()
`

Return the column number where the current document event ends.


`
abstract


int` `
https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator#getLineNumber()()
`

Return the line number where the current document event ends.


`
abstract


https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String` `
https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator#getPublicId()()
`

Return the public identifier for the current document event.


`
abstract


https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String` `
https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/Locator#getSystemId()()
`

Return the system identifier for the current document event.


## Public methods

### getEncoding

Added in [API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)

```
public abstract String getEncoding ()
```

Returns the name of the character encoding for the entity.
If the encoding was declared externally (for example, in a MIME
Content-Type header), that will be the name returned. Else if there
was an *\<?xml ...encoding='...'?\>* declaration at
the start of the document, that encoding name will be returned.
Otherwise the encoding will been inferred (normally to be UTF-8, or
some UTF-16 variant), and that inferred name will be returned.

When an `https://developer.android.com/reference/org/xml/sax/InputSource` is used
to provide an entity's character stream, this method returns the
encoding provided in that input stream.

Note that some recent W3C specifications require that text
in some encodings be normalized, using Unicode Normalization
Form C, before processing. Such normalization must be performed
by applications, and would normally be triggered based on the
value returned by this method.

Encoding names may be those used by the underlying JVM,
and comparisons should be case-insensitive.

<br />

| Returns ||
|---|---|
| `https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String` | Name of the character encoding being used to interpret \* the entity's text, or null if this was not provided for a \* character stream passed through an InputSource or is otherwise not yet available in the current parsing state. <br /> |

### getXMLVersion

Added in [API level 1](https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element#ApiLevels)

```
public abstract String getXMLVersion ()
```

Returns the version of XML used for the entity. This will
normally be the identifier from the current entity's
*\<?xml version='...' ...?\>* declaration,
or be defaulted by the parser.

<br />

| Returns ||
|---|---|
| `https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/String` | Identifier for the XML version being used to interpret the entity's text, or null if that information is not yet available in the current parsing state. <br /> |