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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><BR>Do I really serialize the xml when doing a XSLT
tranformation?<BR><FONT face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica"><SPAN
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica"><SPAN
class=650430322-20062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The result of an
XSLT transformation is another tree - which you may (or may not) choose to
serialize.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica"><SPAN
class=650430322-20062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If the
serialization is controlled from XSLT then the xsl:output properties will
determine what XML declaration gets output.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica"><SPAN
class=650430322-20062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Don't think of it
in terms of asking for an XML declaration that
specifies encoding="euc-jp". Think of it as asking the serializer to
output the XML in a particular encoding. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica"><SPAN
class=650430322-20062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Michael
Kay</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>