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Subject: Re: How to convert XML doc from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 char encoding?
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:55:09 -0500
Re:  How to convert XML doc from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 ch
At 2010-01-11 06:51 -0800, James A. Robinson wrote:
> Assume I have a XML doc which is UTF-8 encoded.
>
> Can I convert it somehow to ISO-8859-1 encoding?

Since this is an XSLT list, I'll mention the XSLT way to do it:

  Set xsl:output/@encoding to the encoding you want.  Your XSLT
  engine has to support the encoding, naturally.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Note that a more succinct stylesheet would read:


<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
  <xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
  <xsl:template match="/"><xsl:copy-of select="/"/></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

... since you aren't using it for importation for specialization. It might be that an XSLT processor won't know to optimize your form for the form I've suggested.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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