Encoding problem with Froogle datafeed

[richard borrie]

Hi

I am generating a datafile for a Froogle (Google) shop submission, and having some problems. Apparently the file is not valid because it has a UTF-8 byte order marker where as Froogle requires it to be "ASCII" or "Latin". The file is generated by a server-side XSL transform of our XML product list

This is the encoding on the XML product list

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?

This is the start of the XSL which does the transform

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:output method="text" /

This is the part of the ASPX program which generates the file using the XSL

response.ContentType = "text/plain
response.charset="ISO-8859-1
response.AddHeader ("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=froogle.txt"

Can anyone tell me why I am apparently generating a UTF-8 byte marker in the resulting file

Thank

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

richard borrie wrote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:output method="text" />

Encoding of the stylesheet has nothing to do with output encoding. To
control it use
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, XmlInsider]
http://blog.tkachenko.com