Hi,
i did not get (sed -e s/encoding="utf-8"//) what do you mean?

From: Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: RE: AW:  Instant Saxon
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:56:02 +0300

Hi,

> This will omit the whole xml tag i only want to omit the
> encoding="utf-8"
> from the beginning tag...

No XSLT way of achieving this if the XSLT engine decides to output the encoding on the XML Declaration even when it need not. Postprocess with

sed -e s/encoding="utf-8"//

Cheers,

Jarno - Neurotic Fish: M.F.A.P.L. (Intelligent Tribal Freak mix)

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