Re: [xsl] outputting <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> My problem is that the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> which
> should appear at the top as a header, doesn't.

Is that really a problem? the xml declaration is optional.
Also are you sure that you are outputting in utf8?

I don't really read vb but I don't think you are serialising the output
using xslt (so using the xsl:output parameters) as you are sending stuff
to an XmlTextWriter, but doesnt System.Text.Encoding.Unicode specify
utf16 rather than utf8 ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconinputsoutputstoxsltransform.asp

Note   *the encoding attribute is ignored when the
XslTransform.Transform method is sending its output to a TextWriter. The
encoding property on the TextWriter is used instead.

David