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 Why was this decision made? I see from the XSLT 2.0 requirements document, that one of the requirements was to give XSLT the ability to figure out what the input encoding was. There is even a use case mentioned in the requirements document : http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req (see item 1.4) which talks about why this would be useful. Speaking for myself (I have no idea what the WG's thinking was) that requirement was a COULD, not a MUST or even a SHOULD. I tend to think it's not that important to know the encoding. Most importantly providing that functionality would mean that an XSLT 2 processor couldn't be implemented on top of a standard XML parser which does not provide that information. -- o;?Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim 
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