RE: How to get to the XML Declaration

> How can I read the values of the attributes of the XML 
> Declaration in the
> input document using XSLT and XPath?

You can't, it's not part of the data model.
> 
> Let us say I want to transform 100 documents with the same 
> XSLT stylesheet,
> and I want to treat them differently based on what encoding 
> they use in
> their XML Declaration. How can I do it?
> 

Why would you want to do it? The encoding isn't supposed to contain any
information apart from telling you what the encoding is, which you don't
need to know once the document has been parsed.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/