Re: [xsl] How to convert XML doc from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 char encoding?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2010-01-11 06:51 -0800, James A. Robinson wrote:
> > Assume I have a XML doc which is UTF-8 encoded.
> >
> > Can I convert it somehow to ISO-8859-1 encoding?
>
> Since this is an XSLT list, I'll mention the XSLT way to do it:
>
>   Set xsl:output/@encoding to the encoding you want.  Your XSLT
>   engine has to support the encoding, naturally.
>
>   For example:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="2.0">
>   <xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
>   <xsl:template match="node()">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

Note that a more succinct stylesheet would read:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="2.0">
  <xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
  <xsl:template match="/"><xsl:copy-of select="/"/></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

... since you aren't using it for importation for specialization.  It 
might be that an XSLT processor won't know to optimize your form for 
the form I've suggested.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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