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RE: outputting the document encoding information
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 10:07:41 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] outputting the document encoding information
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
>
> I have an xml document with a standard XML document declaration:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
> And I am generating a text document based on the XML. The
> text document
> needs to contain the encoding type.
>
The tree passed from the XML parser to the XSLT processor just contains
characters, there is no information about the original encoding of the
source file. But you can ask the serializer to use a particular output
encoding for the result file using <xsl:output>
Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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