The question then, is MSXML 3.0 broken because it adds the meta node
into the result set if output method="html"?
No it is _mandated_ to add a meta element by the XSLT spec.
It has to place a meta element reflecting the encoding it actually used
rather than the encoding you request in xsl:output.
If you call msxml so that it produces a dom or similar in memory
representation then it always uses utf16 and ignores the requested output
encoding. If you ask it to output to a file or string then it will use
the encoding you request if it is supported on your platform.
David
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