XSL error

anaik100 · February 9th, 2006, 11:23 PM

I am trying to open a simple XSL and XMl that i have created in IE 6.0.2900
but i get the follwoing error

Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents and Setti...

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

What encoding should i use to remove the error

anaik100 · February 10th, 2006, 11:09 AM

Any idea guys

joefawcett · February 10th, 2006, 11:32 AM

If you want answers it's better to give some details about the scenario and what code you are using.

If this is a server-side transform it is because you start with one character set and then switch, often because of using Response.Write in ASP or similar which is bad practice.

If client side it's often because the encoding stated at the top of the file does not match the real encoding.

Show us how you are transforming etc.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

anaik100 · February 10th, 2006, 11:50 AM

i have created this two files
cdcatalog.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
    <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
    <table border="1">
    <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
      <th align="left">Title</th>
      <th align="left">Artist</th>
    </tr>
    <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
    <tr>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
    </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>

cdcatalog.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>
<catalog>
  <cd>
    <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
    <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
    <country>USA</country>
    <company>Columbia</company>
    <price>10.90</price>
    <year>1985</year>
  </cd>
</catalog>

and when i try to open any of this files in my Internet Explorer , i get the error mentioned in the first post..

joefawcett · February 10th, 2006, 12:11 PM

Well they work for me if saved in the ISO-8859-1 format so it maybe that they're incorrectly encoded on your machine.

Try removing the encoding "attribute" from the declarations.

You can always open in Notepad and save as UTF-8.

How were the files originally created?

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

anaik100 · February 10th, 2006, 12:22 PM

i tried to open it in my office machine it works..but when i tried to open it in my laptop it did not work...

To create this files
I opened an Webpage->View Source
Then i pasted my xml files here and then clicked on Save as and saved the file for XML..with xml extension
similar thing i did for XSL file with, xsl extension..

both the files were saved correctly on both the machines, because windows gives a typical icon for XML and XSL files..

i am not understanding why it is not opening in my Internet explorer at my laptop

any help