On Oct 4, 8:39 pm, "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <n...@nospam.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:40:40 -0000, robsto...@gmail.com wrote:
> >In an xslt file I am specifying the encoding type of the resulting xml
> >file:
> ><xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"
> >indent="yes"/>
>
> >But, when the xml is produced the code is indented but the encoding
> >attribute is missing:
> ><?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> >This causes the xml file to be ignored by the javaScript xsl processor
> >I am using as it contains characters seemingly not supported by utf-8.
>
> Sounds odd
>
> I can't imagine that happening unless you're not passing the correct
> MIME encoding type to the javascript (you didn't say how this "file"
> is loaded by javascript, it sounds like it's coming off a web server)
>
> The encoding value above should be used by the XSL processor to make
> sure that the character code points in its output conform to
> ISO-8859-1 characterset.
>
> If you must include that processing instruction I guess you can write
> out a processing instruction out in the XSL processor : eghttp://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_processing-instruction.asp
>
> <xsl:processing-instruction name="xml ">version="1.0"
> encoding="iso-8859-1"</xsl: processing-instruction>
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Neil

That method sounds promising but I'm having a bit of difficulty
implementing (I'm a bit new to this XSL stuff).  Where do I put the
XSL processing instruction? In the XML file?

Thanks
Rob