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> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Welch > Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:57 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: encoding issues > > > > >The problem is that the output of your transformation is labelled as > XML, > >but the XML is not well-formed (missing document element). > > Yeah, thats a typo but it makes no difference > > >Even if the transformation result *would* be wellformed XHTML, this > wouldn't > >work, as IE does not support XHTML (properly). > > Its all come about because I wanted to produce xhtml - by adding the > xsl:output element: > > <xsl:output > > doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1 > -strict.dtd" > doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > method="xml" > encoding="utf-8"/> > > I inadvertantly added the encoding attribute, which led to IE not > selecting unicode. > > >So the only clean solution is to produce HTML using the "html" > xsl:output > >method. This will insert the proper META tag (which IE requires to > detect > >the encoding). > > True, but   is a non-breaking-space in anyones markup. Yes, but the document that you're producing doesn't contain the character sequence " ", but it contains the Unicode character 160 serialized as a two-byte-sequence. IE either supports XML (+CSS) (so the HTML engine won't even look at it), *or* HTML. If you're producing HTML, the XML declaration is irrelevant (the only thing that counts are the encoding declaration from the HTTP response and/or the META tag in the HTML). > btw, the <meta> tag only gets inserted if you have a <head> in your > output, but yes it does seem to force IE to use unicode (msxml3/4) and > utf-8 (saxon). XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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