Problem with Microsoft.XMLDOM output UTF-8 1

MakeItSo · Jun 26, 2007

Hello friends,

I am having trouble correctly displaying XML content which I load from an ASP.
My XML is encoded in UTF-8, yet the transformed HTML output is encoded UTF-16!
That, of course, causes all special characters to display as junk.
Can you help me out here?

This is my ASP code handling the XML data:

Code:

	Dim objXML
	Dim objXSL
	Dim strHTML
	
	'Load the XML File
'determine, which file to load*****
        fil= "xml/" & lang & "/" & session("file") & ".xml"
'********
	Set objXML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
	objXML.async = False
	objXML.load(Server.MapPath(fil))
	'Load the XSL File
	Set objXSL = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
	objXSL.async = False
	objXSL.load(Server.MapPath("andy.xsl"))
	
	' Transform the XML file using the XSL stylesheet
	strHTML = objXML.transformNode(objXSL)
	
	Set objXML = Nothing
	Set objXSL = Nothing
	
	Response.Write strHTML

This is my XML header:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="andy.xsl" ?>

My XSL header:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]

And the resulting output:

Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16">

What the hell? [3eyes]

Sure: UTF-8 + UTF-8 = UTF-16, do the math...
[bigcheeks]

Strange things...

Thanks in advance!
Andy

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tsuji · Jun 26, 2007

[1] In your stylesheet, at the top level you have (I hope) the element xsl

utput? If not, add it in like this.
[tt]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

[blue]<xsl

utput method="html" encoding="utf-8" />[/blue]
[/tt]
[2] In the asp proper, use transformnodetoobject instead of transformnode. The output is streamed to the response object. Like this.
[tt]
' Transform the XML file using the XSL stylesheet
[red]'[/red]~~strHTML = objXML.transformNode(objXSL)~~
[blue]objXML.transformNodeToObject objXSL,Response[/blue]

Set objXML = Nothing
Set objXSL = Nothing

[red]'[/red]~~Response.Write strHTML~~
[/tt]
And now things are set to go.

MakeItSo · Jun 26, 2007

Excellent, tsuji!

That solved it!
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