Re: Remove <?xml version> line from output?

In your xsl file, add the following top-level tag:
    <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

Derek

"Nice, Kerry A. (LNG-SHEP)" wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using xalan to transform XML documents to RTF.  It works fine except I
> get the
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line as the first line of my file
> which has
> to be stripped off before it will work as a RTF document.
>
> Is there anyway to suppress this during the transformation so I don't have
> to resort
> to string manipulation on the finished file.  (I'm just using the
> SimpleTransform
> demo program from Xalan.)
>
> So, basically
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1
> etc...
>
> will become
>
> {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1
> etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Kerry.
>
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> Java Programmer
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