Lance Johnson wrote:
> We are currently using the XslCompiledTransform class to transform an 
> xml file, but we're getting this strange a character with a hat over it 
> (Â). When I look at the xsl the part that is causing this has something 
> like this:
> <span>
>             <xsl:text>&#160;</xsl:text>
> </span>

Well the issue is perhaps not with the XSLT stylesheet but rather how 
you look at or display the transformation result. The code below writes 
to a HTML document. How do you display that document?
How does the xsl:output element in your stylesheet look? Does the HTML 
document the stylesheet generates have a
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=somecharset">
element in the head?


> //create the output stream
> using (XmlTextWriter myWriter = new XmlTextWriter("output.html", null))
> {
>    using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(myWriter, 
> trans.OutputSettings))
>    {
>        //do the actual transform of Xml
>        trans.Transform(doc, null, xmlWriter);
>    }
> }

Drop the outer XmlTextWriter, simply use

    using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create("output.html", 
trans.OutputSettings))
    {
        //do the actual transform of Xml
        trans.Transform(doc, null, xmlWriter);
    }

that way you ensure that the meta element in the HTML document that is 
generated and the encoding of the document match.


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