Hi.
John Meyer wrote at 06/01/2004 09:36 a.m.:
I'm not sure I understand why
<xsl:output method='xml' version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'
omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
is invalid. ISO-8859-1 is a subset of UTF-8 and should cause no problems
since most parsers default to UTF-8 if the XML declaration is ommited.
For my knowledge, that is incorrect. Latin1 isn't a subset of UTF-8, for
the contrary, the opposite is true: UTF-8 is a subset of Latin1. If you
want to generate a XML document (result tree) that has *support* for Latin1
characters, like: á,é,í,ü,ë, etc. you have to generated the XML declaration
with Latin1 encoding (ISO-8859-1), otherwise the result would not be well
formed XML, just like David said:
...
Note however that:
<xsl:output method='xml' version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'
omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
has incompatible options: you can't have latin1 output and omit the xml
declaration (otherwise the result would not be well formed XML.
The XSLt engine will be forced to ignore omit-xml-declaration="yes"
here.
David
Cheers,
Sergio Rodríguez.
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