> Question:  Should you get the UTF-16 meta-tag if you explicitly define 
> the charset in the output method to ISO-8859-1?

yes. If the output is in utf16 (which it often is with msxml whatever
you request in xsl:output.

this is why the XSLt spec specifies that the system add the meta 
element: the  stylesheet author can not do this accurately as (s)he has
no direct control over the acyual encoding in teh output, xsl:output is
just a hint.

David

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