RE: How to produce the "XML declaration line" in the middle of a documen

If you're producing XML, then you can't have an XML declaration in the
middle of the document - that would make it non-XML.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Khorasani, Houman [mailto:houman_khorasani(_at_)csgsystems(_dot_)com] 
> Sent: 11 August 2005 16:40
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] How to produce the "XML declaration line" 
> in the middle of a document?
>
> Actually another situation came up.
>
> If I use xsl:output method="text" then my escaped characters 
> <? Will be
> translated correctly from 
> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?&gt;
> to
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> However all the xml tags disappear and just the values appear in the
> output.
>
> Do I set the xsl:output method="xml" then the tags are there but the
> escaped characters won't get translated correctly.
>
> Is there a way out?
> Thanks
> Houman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk] 
> Sent: 09 August 2005 13:06
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] How to produce the "XML declaration line" in the
> middle of a document?
>
>
> Assuming you have xsl:output method="text" then you don't need to do
> anything special, you just place the string in the stylesheet as you
> would any other string. As always you need to quote < and &
>
> so for example
>
> &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>
>
> David
>
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