> I mean if you use xsl:output set to text then you can do anything you want.

No even in the text output method you don't control the encoding used
for characters. If you enter a Japanese character in say a JIS encoding,
then even in the text output method the system may choose to output that
character in utf-8. thus it wouldn't really help if one wrote out, as
text, a meta element specifying some encoding, only the XSL system
itself knows for sure what encoding is used.

David

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