Re: [xsl] Inexplicable Null Characters in HTML Output

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Ben Leighton wrote:
> Transforming XML to HTML using the msxsl command line interface produces
> HTML files interspersed with Null Characters. 

This is a FAQ, though you asked it a little differently.

You are misinterpreting the encoding of the document when you say it
has null characters. In this case, there are *2* bytes per character.
Since your document uses only ASCII-range characters, you are well
below the 0x100 threshold that would make the high byte greater than
zero.

> file starts:
> ascii:
> 
> 255, 254, 13, 0

No, not ASCII. The first two bytes are the byte order mark, and
after that, you have little-endian pairs. Technically what you
have in that example is 2 16-bit values:

0xFEFF, 0x000D

and I assume the next one is 0x000A to complete the CR+LF.

This message should help:

http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200108/msg00541.html


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