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On 5/24/05, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why would you want to do it? The encoding isn't supposed to contain any > information apart from telling you what the encoding is, which you don't > need to know once the document has been parsed. > Michael, Why was this decision made? I see from the XSLT 2.0 requirements document, that one of the requirements was to give XSLT the ability to figure out what the input encoding was. There is even a use case mentioned in the requirements document : http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req (see item 1.4) which talks about why this would be useful. Thanks, Kenneth
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