Re: [xsl] Validation XSLT using XSLT 1.0

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Ludwig wrote:
> > 3. How to find non-ascii characters in the XML file and report an
> > error using XSLT.
>
> Don't use XSLT for this. Add the following XML declaration to your input
> documents:
>
>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
>
> This will ensure the document won't get parsed unless it is pure ASCII.

Yet may still contain higher characters, which then will be escaped 
using numerical entity references... So, though the file will be 
US-ASCII, the contents does not necessarily fit in US-ASCII and still 
get parsed well.

-- Abel --