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 Hello, We are/were having troubles with the final encoding of our stylesheets. The end result is always UTF-16, which causes some issues on MACS. I did come up with a solution and that was to add the following declaration to our stylesheets: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> This use to be written as: <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"> Most of our code is pre XSLT1.0 standards and in fact there are many cases where we are still using the "order-by" property for an apply-templates rule. Before the above fix, I tried the following: - made sure the XML source was UTF-8 encoded - added the UTF-8 encoding to the output rule for the stylesheet - manually added meta content type = UTF-8 to the head of the stylesheet (which would result in a duplication of this tag) This fix, it basically removes any meta tag content type declerations, unless I explicitly put one there, where as before MSXML was throwing in their own - the UTF-16 encoding, which is a problem for me. The resulting HTML tag looks like this: <HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> And in an effort to make sure I understood what exactly was fixing the automatic insertion of the meta tag content-type UTF-16 into my HEAD, I removed all of the above fixes and narrowed it down to to the new namespace decleration: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml". Can someone shed some light on all of this? Is this all normal behaviour? My suggested *fix* above, is this the best way / most standard way to write my xsl:stylesheet rule for intendid HTML output? Thanks, Karl 
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