Re: [xsl] Changing encoding using a parameter

[Johannes Döbler <jd at aztecrider dot com>]

Matt,

there is no direct way to do this in XSLT 1.0.

Possible solutions are:
a) in XSLT 1.1 the attributes of the xsl:output element are attribute value 
templates and therefore you could write:

   <xsl:output encoding="{$encoding}"/>
   <xsl:param name="encoding" select="'UTF-8'"/>

and pass the real encoding to the stylesheet as a parameter.

b) you could use SUN's TrAX API which lets you override the output settings 
at runtime
c) you could use a processor with a suitable extension

Solution a) requires a XSLT 1.1 processor (like my jd.xslt ;-)
b) requires a TrAX capable processor (like Saxon, Xalan, jd.xslt). But no 
processor lets you set it directly from the commandline so you have to 
invoke the transformation from a java program.
c) (don't know any processors capable of that)

Johannes


At 12:55 28.03.01 -0600, you wrote:
>I want to change the encoding of an XML file based on a parameter that I
>pass into the XSL.  How would I go about doing that?  I know how to pass in
>the parameter, but I need the encoding to be changed based on the
>parameter.
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><People>
>      <Person>
>           <FirstName>Matt</FirstName>
>           <LastName>Youngblut</LastName>
>      </Person>
></People>
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><xsl:transform version="1.0" xmlns:xsl
>="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>      <xsl:param name="PARAMETER">UTF-8</xsl:param>
>
>      <!-- I need to plug in the encoding change somewhere.  But WHERE, and
>HOW? -->
>
>      <xsl:template match="/">
>           <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>      </xsl:template>
></xsl:transform>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>      Matt Youngblut
>
>
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