> the processor crashes if I use any of the characters åäö... 
> do you have to
> declare the charset somewhere with XSLT?

Yes. In the PI telling it that it is an XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-9"?> should allow you to use those
charactors.

Ben


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