Re: encoding <-> omit-xml-declaration

"Maia Zaharieva" <m.zaharieva@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> i have just noticed, that if i have
>     <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> i get the output file with no xml declaration (as it should be).
>
> but if i set the encoding attribute on anything different than UTF-8 the
> omit-xml-declaration get ignored and i always get the xml declaration at
the
> beginning of the output file.
>
> could anyone explain me this correlation?

The default value of the encoding pseudo-attribute of the xml declaration is
"UTF-8".

In case there is no xml declaration a parser will assume that the encoding
of the document is UTF-8. Therefore, for any encoding different from UTF-8
the xml declaration must be specified (otherwise the parser will not be
correctly informed about the real encoding of the document).


Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html




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