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At 2004-01-18 17:48 +0100, Maia Zaharieva wrote:
One function of the XML declaration is to tell an XML processor in what encoding to expect the file, and if the declaration is absent the XML processor is *required to assume* it to be either UTF-8 or UTF-16. Since you are asking for a character set other than UTF-8 or UTF-16 to be used, the resulting file would not be well-formed if you omitted the XML declaration, thus the XSLT processor is obliged to include it. Not including it would result in non-well-formed output, which is not allowed for XSLT (unless someone shoots themselves in the foot with disable-output-escaping). I hope this helps. ....................... Ken -- North America (Washington, DC): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-03-15 - (San Francisco, CA): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-03-22 Asia (Hong Kong, China): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-05-17 Europe (Bremen, Germany): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-05-24 Instructor-led on-site corporate, government & user group training for XSLT and XSL-FO world-wide: please contact us for the details G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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