RE: MSXML encoding (was RE: [xsl] Unicode usage)

Subject: RE: MSXML encoding (was RE: [xsl] Unicode usage)
From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:37:41 +0100
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jacoby, Peter
> R.
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:27 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: MSXML encoding (was RE: [xsl] Unicode usage)
> 
> 
> >>If XML Cooktop (which I've never used) has the same bug as XML Spy,
> >>then it has trouble with MSXML's transformNode method, which always
> >>transforms to UTF-16 regardless of the <xsl:output> element. That would
> >>cause what you've been seeing.
> 
> I've had problems with this as well.  Is there a workaround to 
> enable MSXML to
> recognize the encoding attribute of the <xsl:output> element?  I 
> end up just
> omitting the xml declaration which works, but is not an elegant 
> solution.  I'm
> still using version 3.0, does this change at all in 4.0?  What's 
> even stranger
> is that IE 5.5 does not know how to read xml encoded with UTF-16, 
> even though
> that is the only thing their parser will produce.

That's not true. It depends on how you invoke it. See 

	<http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200108/msg00541.html>

for an analysis.


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