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RE: default meta tag Revisted


this will probably get me flamed but you could output to txt and do what you
were originally doing. You might have to fiddle with your XSL to get the
HTML correct again, but it is one way.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Tanzila
> Mohammad
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 10:11 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] default meta tag Revisted
>
>
> I am trying to develop a single XSL stylesheet which can handle a
> number of
> languages. Is there a way of using a parameter or some other
> method for the
> value of the encoding attribute in the XSL?
> i.e. something like this? - <xsl:output encoding="$param"/>
>
> Instead of hard-coding i.e. <xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-6"/>,
> which would
> then require me to have separate stylesheets for each language that has
> different encoding (namely Arabic and Chinese).
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tanzila
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of David
> Carlisle
> Sent: 04 September 2001 14:33
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] default meta tag??
>
>
>
> > The problem is in the output - the duplicate meta tag, is there
> a default
> > setting that I am missing? How do I remove the following?
> >
> > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
>
> You don't want to remove that: You want to remove the other one (which
> is wrong)
>
> The meta element has to specify the encoding that is used in the
> document. The XSL engine chooses the encoding it wants to use,
> and automatically adds the correct meta tag.
>
> if you just output the meta tag for iso-8859-6, the document will not be
> written out in that encoding, so it will just be wrong information for
> the browser.
>
> If you want to output the file in iso-8859-6 then use
> <xsl:output encoding="iso-8859-6"/>
> then _if_ your XSL engine supports that encoding, it will output the
> file in that encoding and add a meta element specifying that encoding.
>
> David
>
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