RE: Inexplicable Null Characters in HTML Output

Your output doesn't contain null characters, it contains zero bytes. These
zero bytes form the top half of a 16-bit Unicode character. MSXML3 always
produces this character encoding if you write the transformation result to a
character output stream, rather than a binary output stream.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Ben Leighton
> Sent: 21 September 2001 01:39
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Inexplicable Null Characters in HTML Output
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>     I hope this post isn't inappropriate for this list.
> Im experiencing a problem with msxml 3.0. Until recently everything
> worked fine but for some mysterious reason msxml has started behaving
> strangely.
>
> Transforming XML to HTML using the msxsl command line
> interface produces
> HTML files
> interspersed with Null Characters. file starts:
> ascii:
>
> 255, 254, 13, 0
>
> Subsequent lines start with null character (ascii 0) and
> every character
> of the output
> is followed by another null character. All the expected HTML
> is produced
> but the
> end result is corrupted by the addition of nulls.
>
> The problem occurs across multiple xml files and stylesheets.
> In addition this problem does not occur when xt is used. Ive tried re
> installing msxml 3
> msxsl IE 5.5 and installing sp6a for NT all to no avail.
>
> Has any one else experienced this problem.
>
> :) Ben
>
>
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