Hi Owen
                The file starts with <?xml version="1.0"
encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> so i think before transforming the encoding of file
is changed to UTF-8(Default encoding for Xalan transformer) and since UTF-8
encoded file cannot contain ISO-8859-1 characters so this might be the cause
of this problem i am still debugging it.

Thanks alot guys
Pankaj
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Owen Rees" <owen.rees@xxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence exception while
transforming


> --On 02 February 2007 14:47 +0530 Pankaj Bishnoi wrote:
>
> >          I am using Xalan2.7.0 for transformation. I am getting a
> > "MalformedByteSequenceException:: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8
sequence"
> > exception while transforming a xml file. The encoding defined in input
xml
> > is ISO-8859-1.
>
> That message (and the stack trace) indicate that the XML parser is
treating
> the input as UTF-8.
>
> When you say "The encoding defined in input xml is ISO-8859-1." do you
mean
> that the XML starts with <?xml version="1.0"  encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>,
that
> the data in the file is encoded in ISO-8859-1 or both?
>
> Is the file being delivered by some mechanism that specifies the encoding
> (HTTP can do that)? If so, what encoding is specified?
>
> -- 
> Owen Rees
> Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK