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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: ISO-8859-1 encoding and XmlDecl omision (was Re: L
 I currently have the situation where the result of my transform is included as part of a html page using jsp. Then use <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/> I use encoding="ascii" to ensure all of my character refs remain as character refs through to the output, The encoding doesn't preserve the named HTML entity references, the output method does. but for this reason (as Ive just found out) the omit-xml-declaration="yes" is ignored - which means in the middle of my output I have the xml declaration. I'm not sure it is wise for standards bodies to provide too many solutions to non-problems ... the problem is, I think, with your expectations for a processor to produce something invalid just to accommodate your specialized non-standard situation. I would have thought that as ascii is a subset of utf-8, ASCII (7-bit) happens to be a subset of UTF-8, but since you are talking about "character refs" by which I assume you are referring to named HTML character entities recognized by HTML browsers without the need of entity declarations, those are *not* in ASCII, they are in ISO-8859-1 and as has been repeatedly mentioned, this is *not* a subset of UTF-8, nor is UTF-8 a subset of ISO-8859-1. the processor could happily leave the declartion out knowing that any future parsing of the document would use utf-8 (by default) and could correctly read the file. But it wouldn't *be* correct. UTF-8 encoding of high-bit ISO-8859-1 characters requires two bytes, where the ISO-8859-1 encoding of ISO-8859-1 characters requires only one byte. Since what I believe you are asking for is the HTML encoding of ISO-8859-1 characters as named HTML character entities, then specify what you are asking for: <xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/> or probably just: <xsl:output method="html"/> An example is below ... note how there is no XML declaration and you get the HTML character entity reference. I hope this helps. ............................. Ken T:\ftemp>type andrew.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
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