RE: generate XHTML header without causing xmlns attrib

> > But the resulting table tag in XHTML is:
> > <table xmlns="" class="parameters" cellspacing="0"
> > cellpadding="3" border="1">
> >   <thead>
> >     <tr>
> >        ...
> > 
> This code looks perfectly correct to me. 
> 
> This means either:
> * I haven't spotted your error, or
> * There is something odd in a part of the stylesheet you 
> haven't shown us, or
> * you are using a buggy XSLT processor (unlikely if you are 
> using one of the widely-used ones, but I don't think you told 
> us which one it was).
> 
> The next thing I would do is to run it against a different 
> processor and see if the results are the same.
> 

Ahh, Michael, 
You were correct in assuming it was an odd behaviour by the XSLT processor.

I've used Xalan-J, up till now...

Here is the <table> tags from Xalan-j and MSXML3 processors

Xalan-J:
<table class="querydef" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="1">
<table xmlns="" class="parameters" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" border="1">

MSXML3:
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="querydef">
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="parameters">

Hmm - Looks like Xalan-J misinterprets something, the output in MSXML3 is as I would expect it to be.

However, in MSXML3 I have another unrelated problem. 

Even though I specify 
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" />

The character encoding line in the XHTML generated by MSXML is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
As opposed to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
In the output from Xalan-J (which is what I expected it to be).

Is there a way to force MSXML to write ISO-8859-1 as character encoding instead - if so, I can use MSXML instead of Xalan-J?

Flemming

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