xslt word 2003

[bont]

I have an XSLT set up to generate a word 2003 document. It works, but it defaults to utf-16. Have tried to change encoding to utf-8, but it doesn't change. Is this something I must change in my VB code during the transform, or is this just a bug of the vb.net? Am I missing something?

 

[JontyMC]

<xsl:output encoding="utf-8"/>

This didn't work?

 

[bont]

No, just changing the encoding value does not work, it stays with utf-16. I am using VB.net 2002 to perform the transform to create XML for Word 2003.

VB.net code

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        'Prepare StringWriter for results
        Dim sw As System.IO.StringWriter = New System.IO.StringWriter()
        'Load xml file into XMLDoc
        Dim XMLDoc As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument("C:\Redix\HGApps\WindowsApplication3\WindowsApplication3\XMLFile1.xml")
        'Load XSL
        Dim XSLTDoc As XslTransform = New XslTransform()
        XSLTDoc.Load("C:\Redix\HGApps\WindowsApplication3\WindowsApplication3\XSLTFile1.xsl")
        'Transform XMLDoc and dump HTML results to stringwriter -> sw
        XSLTDoc.Transform(XMLDoc, Nothing, sw)
        'Pull results out of stringwriter and populate literal
        TextBox1.Text = sw.ToString()
    End Sub

XSLT code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"[/URL] xmlns:w="[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml"[/URL] >
<xsl:output method="xml"  indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:processing-instruction name="mso-application">
		<xsl:text>progid="Word.Document"</xsl:text>
	</xsl:processing-instruction>
	<w:wordDocument>
		<w:body>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="Courses/Course" />
		</w:body>
	</w:wordDocument>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="Course">
		<w:p>
			<w:r>
				<w:t>
					<xsl:value-of select="@Number" />, <xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
				</w:t>
			</w:r>
		</w:p>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

 

[harebrain]

This is a suggestion to dig deeper into the Word API: Word produces Unicode (UTF-16) output by default, no? That suggests that you'd have to do something affirmative to produce UTF-8; just calling it UTF-8 wouldn't be sufficient.

 

[bont]

I have looked at many examples, which all say to use utf-8. My app will only produce utf-16. I have told it to not print the <? xml ?> tag at all and word assumes utf-8, so it works fine now, but I still would like to know what causes it to default to utf-16?