response.writing out UTF8 XML. How?

[darrel]

I was having issues before with my XML being sent to the browser as UTF16.
Via my XmlTextWriter, was able to fix this by explicitely setting the
encoding to UTF8:

Dim objX As New XmlTextWriter(Response.OutputStream, Encoding.UTF8)

That fixed the issue.

I'm not generating an XML file using a different method grabbing XML from a
DB and then reading it in as a stringreader, then transforming that via an
XSLT file.

Eventually, I do the XSLT transformation and response.write the result to
the browser.

The problem is that, once again, it's being set witn a UTF16 encoding.

I've tried to explicitely set the response encoding as such:

-------------
xslt.Transform(doc, xslArg, sw, Nothing)
Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
Response.Write(sw.ToString)
Response.End()
-------------

But I STILL get the UTF16 declaration in my XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><rss version="2.0">...

Why!?

-Darrel

[Martin Honnen]

darrel wrote:

The problem is that, once again, it's being set witn a UTF16 encoding.

I've tried to explicitely set the response encoding as such:

-------------
xslt.Transform(doc, xslArg, sw, Nothing)
Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
Response.Write(sw.ToString)
Response.End()
-------------

But I STILL get the UTF16 declaration in my XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><rss version="2.0">...

Don't transform to a StringWriter, instead transform directly to
Response.Output:
Response.ContentType = "application/xml"
xslt.Transform(doc, xslArg, Response.Output, Nothing)
And make sure your XSLT stylesheet has
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"/>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[darrel]

Don't transform to a StringWriter, instead transform directly to

Response.Output:

Aha!

So, I have this now:

Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
xslt.Transform(doc, xslArg, Response.Output, Nothing)
Response.End()

And that works! However, I've never epxlicitely put the <?xml...tag in my
XSLT. It seems that this is generated for me via the response output. Should
I be explicitly including this in my XSLT file?

-Darrel