Saxon

Legacy ID: #7819792 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

Are you sure there is no xsl:output declaration in the stylesheet specifying "ANSI" encoding? (it would probably be called something like cp1250, "ANSI" is an unofficial and rather misleading name used (formerly) by Microsoft) Note that the XML declaration in the stylesheet defines the encoding of the stylesheet, not of the result document. The encoding of the result is specified using xsl:output.

Legacy ID: #7820013 Legacy Poster: JohnSea (johnsea)

Hi M. Kay, No, there is no output declaration with encoding ANSI or cp1250 in the stylesheet. I specify the encoding myself using xsl:output but cannot produce an UTF-8 result file. I've tried both : xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0" indent="yes"... and xsl:result-document encoding="UTF-8" version="1.0"... Using saxon9he in test.bat file, and Saxon-B 9.1.0.7 in oXygen with the same result, under WinXP.

Legacy ID: #7820046 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

I will need a complete stylesheet and source document, and exact details of how you are running it, so that I can attempt to reproduce the problem. Please try and cut it down to the minimum needed to show the effect.

Legacy ID: #7820409 Legacy Poster: JohnSea (johnsea)

Thanks, Here's the code. test.xml (edited with TextPad, saved as UTF-8) : *** I put the tags in bracket so you can see the code here. [?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?] [test] [welcome]Hello world![/welcome] [/test] test.xsl (edited with TextPad, saved as UTF-8) : <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="2.0"> <xsl:output encoding="UTF-8" method="xhtml" version="1.0" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> <xsl:template match="test"> <xsl:apply-templates select="welcome"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="welcome">

<title><xsl:value-of select="."/></title> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> result.html : *** I put the tags in bracket so you can see the code here. [!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"] [html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"] [head] [title]Hello world![/title] [/head] [body] [p]Hello world![/p] [/body] [/html] When I open result.html with TextPad and look in menu File/Save as... It shows that the file is in ANSI format. I made a scenario in oXygen using Saxon-B 9.1.0.7, and a test.bat file containing this line : java -jar c:\saxon9he.jar -o result.html test.xml test.xsl, with the same end result. Could it be a setting in Java output under Windows?

Legacy ID: #7820456 Legacy Poster: David Lee (daldei)

I suggest your problem is believing TextPad. TextPad has no clue what the encoding of a file is unless it has the UTF header bytes. If there are no UTF header bytes and it encounters no non-ascii charactors it will assume "ANSI". A test would be to put in a real unicode (> 0x7f) charactor in the data and see with a binary editor what the output is.

Legacy ID: #7820561 Legacy Poster: Michael Kay (mhkay)

As far as I can see all the characters involved in this transformation are ASCII characters, and there is no difference between the ANSI and UTF-8 encodings of ASCII characters. The UTF-8 encoding for this result is byte-for-byte identical with the ANSI encoding.

Legacy ID: #7820610 Legacy Poster: JohnSea (johnsea)

Thanks, it solved it. I replaced "Hello world!" in test.xml with "Hello î ï œ" and the file now appears as UTF-8 in TextPad. I won't beleive TextPad anymore...!