This would be doing a similar kind of thing to what the indent-result
attribute on xsl:stylesheet: it's providing information about how the
result tree should be written out as an XML byte stream.  This suggests
that a result-encoding attribute on xsl:stylesheet would be the most
appropriate way to specify this.

Yoichiro Hirano wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are developing an XSLT processor and found that it is
> useful if an encoding type for the output can be specified
> in XSLT file.  Theoretically, I think it should be a PI,
> because it is a command for the XSLT processor.  Yes,
> we can use proprietarily defined PI, but I believe this is a
> common requirement and should be a commonly defined.
> 
> Any opinion? If many of you agree, I would like to propose
> this as a part of the XSLT spec.


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