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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