Re: [xsl] How to get to the XML Declaration

[Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.cynical.robot@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/24/05, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Why would you want to do it? The encoding isn't supposed to contain any
> information apart from telling you what the encoding is, which you don't
> need to know once the document has been parsed.
>

Michael,

    Why was this decision made? I see from the XSLT 2.0 requirements
document, that one of the requirements was to give XSLT the ability to
figure out what the input encoding was. There is even a use case
mentioned in the requirements document :
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req (see item 1.4) which talks about why
this would be useful.

Thanks,
Kenneth