How to ensure the output of transform is utf-8 1

[ddiamond]

I am using xslt to transform my xml source file into a soap request which I then pass to a web-service. The problem I'm running into is that no matter what I do, the output of the xslt is tagged as utf-16, and the web service only seems to like utf-8. How can I make sure the output is tagged as utf-8?

Here is the header of my xslt file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
<xsl:output method='xml' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes' />

Eventhough I am specifying UTF-8 in the output element, my output always has the following header.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>

 

[k5tm]

What is the encoding of the input document?

What XML/XSLT processor are you using?

Are those really apostrophes in the xslutput element attributes? Maybe the processor is not complaining, but not acting on the attributes...

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[ddiamond]

Are those really apostrophes in the xslutput element attributes? Maybe the processor is not complaining, but not acting on the attributes...

Yes, they are apostrophes. After reading your comment I tried switching them to double quotes, but it did not make a difference.


The input document's encoding = UTF-8. I'm not sure which xml/xslt processor I'm using, but here is my javascript code:

function Translate(XMLFileName, XSLFileName)
{
  // Load XML 
  var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
  xml.async = false;
  xml.load(XMLFileName); 
  
  // Load XSL
  var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
  xsl.async = false;
  xsl.load(XSLFileName);
  
  // Transform
  return xml.transformNode(xsl);
}

 

[tsuji]

In case utf-8 is the target encoding, the simplest you can do is to use transformnodetoobject method.
[tt]
function Translate(XMLFileName, XSLFileName)
{
// Load XML
var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xml.async = false;
xml.load(XMLFileName);

// Load XSL
var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xsl.async = false;
xsl.load(XSLFileName);

[blue]//adding this
var outxml=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
outxml.async=false;[/blue]

// Transform
[red]//[/red]return xml.transformNode(xsl);
[blue]xml.transformNodeToObject(xsl,outxml);
return outxml.xml;[/blue]
}
[/tt]

 

[ddiamond]

Thanks tsuji. I'll give it a try and let you know.

 

[ddiamond]

tsuji,

That did the trick. It also indented the output which was nice. It looks like the transformNode method ignored my output element, but the transformNodeToObject did not ignore it. Thanks for your help.

- Dan