Re: [xsl] Re: Does anyone know how to make IE less useless for XSLT developement?

["M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that, David!  I have become so accustomed to using Sarissa 
that I sometimes forget what life was like before Manos made this 
availlable.

Another +1 for Sarissa (and, of course, for Manos) :D

David Carlisle wrote:

> > I sort of remember some encoding issues; something about MSXML having 
> > insisting on using UTF-16 for output using certain API bindings.
> >    
>
> It does have a preference for utf16 because one of its methods outputs
> to some string type thats always utf16 string, but that isn't a
> conformance issue: an xslt1 system is explictly allowed to ignore the
> encoding hint on xsl:output. A common "problem" people have with msxml
> is that they output the whole result as a msxml dom and that dom is then
> later serialised by dom serialisation methods (eg .xml), in which case
> all of the serialisation is outside xslt's control and xsl:output is
> completely ignored. This again is conformant (if confusing) and also
> happens with other systems that allow the in-memory result tree to be
> passed down some pipeline.
>
>
>
> David
>
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