Re: [xsl] text extraction

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Welch wrote:
> "The value of the encoding attribute provides the value of the
> encoding parameter to the serialization method. The default value is
> implementation-defined, but in the case of the xml and xhtml methods
> it must be either UTF-8 or UTF-16."
>
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-output)
>
> ...which took me a little by surprise - It seems to say that when the
> output method is xml or xhtml the encoding MUST be either UTF-8 or
> UTF-16?  Saxon doesn't seem to mind...

I remember somewhere that I read that all XML capable applications MUST 
at least be capable of handling UTF-8 and UTF-16. (Strange, I never see 
UTF-32 anywhere mentioned). Since an XSLT processor must parse XML and 
write it, it follows that at the very *least* it must understant 
UTF-8/16, I think.

Reading that one above, I understand that for Text and Html outputs, it 
is possible that UTF-8/16 is not the default. Good to know, sure I must 
set it manually, I almost only do text processing with UTF-8 (but I'm 
afraid I'm getting adrift from the subject now...)

-- Abel