We are using saxon 9.1 and the output that is generated includes the following characters:

<root>
    
    
    
    
<table>

...
</table>
</root>

Has anyone seen output like this before? And if so, do you know the cause?

Thanks,
Chelsea

What encoding is the output supposed to have? How exactly do you look at the output?

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Martin Honnen
Microsoft MVP (XML, Data Platform Development) 2005/04 - 2013/03
My blog

When using Oxygen and Saxon 9.2, I don't see these characters. However, I have been told when someone is using Saxon 9.1 the characters appear. They are outputting XML with UTF-8.

I will gather more information about the output from the folks seeing the problem and post that information shortly.

I am unable to recreate on my machine, so I am at a bit of a loss.

The chances are that the output is correct UTF-8, and you are looking at it using software (perhaps a text editor) that does not understand how to display UTF-8 characters (or that is not configured to do so).

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Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

But when I perform the transformation and view it, Oxygen renders it correctly. However, when another person performs the transformation and then I view it, Oxygen renders it incorrectly.

Do you get the transformation result from that other person as a file? Does that file have an XML declaration specifying the encoding? I am not familiar with Oxygen but I am sure it will tell you the encoding somehow it used to decode the file it loaded and displays. Is that the same encoding as in the XML declaration?

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Martin Honnen
Microsoft MVP (XML, Data Platform Development) 2005/04 - 2013/03
My blog

The stated encoding is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

But, it looks like I need to complete a little more research and post better detail of the problem.