RE: conditionally outputting with different encodings

3 suggestions:

The JAXP interface allows you to override xsl:output settings from the
application.

Saxon allows you to do so from the command line (add !encoding=xyz).

In XSLT 2.0 you can use <xsl:result-document encoding="{$param}"/> 

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Ciscola [mailto:cravenblackbird@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 19 October 2006 20:14
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  conditionally outputting with different encodings
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm transforming a number of xml documents into html.
> They're all exactly the same, except that their encoding can vary.
> 
> What i want to do be able to do is use the same stylesheet 
> for each one, just telling the processor to output to 
> encoding xxx conditionally, based on whatever the encoding of 
> doc being transformed is.
> 
> I don't see anyway to do this however.. I wish I could just 
> do something as simple as this, and pass the processor a 
> parameter each transform:
> 
> <xsl:param name="target_enc" select="'Shift_JIS'"/> 
> <xsl:ouput method="html" encoding="{$target_enc}" />
> 
> But that appears unsupported.
> 
> Right now I'm using numerous stylesheets, with only one 
> element changed, <xsl:output encoding="xxx" ..../> which 
> really seems like quite a kludge, and is a hassle to keep 
> them synced. The style sheets all use the same encoding, Shift_JIS.
> 
> Any help appreciated, this is for xslt 1.0 I should add.
> 
> thanks!
> S.
> 
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