RE: omit-xml-declaration="yes" doesn't work

You should never get an XML declaration with method="html".

Saxon will override the omit-xml-declaration request if you request a
non-standard encoding, or a standalone value.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> Alex Hunsley
> Sent: 19 October 2001 12:14
> To: xsl-list
> Subject:  omit-xml-declaration="yes" doesn't work
>
>
> Note: I've searched the xsl-dev archives and found people
> talking about
> this problem, but couldn't find a solution.
>
>
> I'm using jaxp-1.1 (saxon) to do transformations to some
> xhtml so I can
> display it as html. It all works fine, except that the
> omit-xml-declaration="yes" instruction seems to be ignored.
>
> The complete xsl:output element in my stylesheet is as follows:
>
>    <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
>
> The document output from the transformation still has the following
> first line:
>
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>
> which it shouldn't, as far as I can see.
>
>
> Can anyone offer any advice on this problem?
>
> thanks
>
> alex
>
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