I have produced a web service that extracts xml from a database and transforms is with XSLT and returns another XML document.

The only problem is that the XML file is encoded as UTF-16.

Because if this it will not open in IE.

Why would it do this?, it is even a problem?

Thanks

IE should understand this type of file. It sounds like the xml declarartion has a different encoding than the one actually used. Can you say a little bit more how it is produced?

Joe (MVP - xml)

Hi Joe,

It is the result of a transformation of data from a database (XML) and an XSLT document.

It is called via a client proxy and written to a file.

The web service called to generate the file returns a string, could this be the problem? (although it would have to return a string if the result of the transformation was not well formed anyway)

If you are using msxml then a transformNode call generates utf-16. Can you show the start of your xslt transform?

Joe (MVP - xml)

start of my sheet is as below:-

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">

<AccountImport>
<xsl:for-each select="//ATTRIBUTES">
<AccountDocument>

<CompanyID><xsl:value-of select="CO_ID"></xsl:value-of></CompanyID>

If you email the file to my hotmail address I'll have a look, chop it down to a few lines first.

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Joe

Joe,

Before I do, I think the problem could be as discussed in the article:-

http://www.dotnet247.com/247referenc...32/161971.aspx

I am using a StringWriter Variable to hold the result of the transformation.

Apparantly these are always utf-16.....

What do you think?

Yes they are, that is not the problem, IE will read utf-16 but the xml declaration might need to state the encoding as well.

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Joe

Thanks again Joe,

Joe,

where can I get your hotmail address?

I am using:-

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"></xsl:output>

in the xslt document, it that what you were going to look for?

Thanks

Joe,

JUST FOUND THIS!!! This has got to be the answer hasn't it? What do you think?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ltransform.asp

My only question now is how to I set the encoding on my TextWriter object?

It's declared as follows:-

TextWriter writer = new StringWriter();