"sskarupa" <steven.skarupa@usa.net> wrote in message
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> I am having problems creating a file from the result of a
> XslTransform.Transform operation. This is XML->EDI conversion and the
> resulting text has to be in ASCII format, but no matter what I do the
> output of the file is in UTF-8.
>
> Please note: I'm using .NET Framework 1.0.
>
> Here is the code that I have been attempting to use:
>
> public void Test()
> {
> string templateFullPath = @"c:\_bin\temp\test.xsl";
> string outputFile = @"c:\_bin\temp\output4.txt";
> string inputFile = @"c:\_bin\temp\test.xml";
>
> Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII;
> StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(outputFile,false,encoding);
>
> XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
> doc.Load(inputFile);
>
> XslTransform template = new XslTransform();
> template.Load(templateFullPath);
> template.Transform(doc,null,sw);
>
> Console.WriteLine(sw.Encoding.ToString());
> sw.Flush();
> sw.Close();
>
> string encodingName = DetermineFileType(outputFile);
> Console.WriteLine("text file encoding = " + encodingName);
> }
> public string DetermineFileType(string aFileName)
> {
> string sEncoding = string.Empty;
>
> StreamReader oSR = new StreamReader(aFileName, true);
> oSR.ReadToEnd();
> sEncoding = oSR.CurrentEncoding.EncodingName;
>
> return sEncoding;
> }
> The output of the transformation is supposed to be a single line with
> header information and multiple lines with "item" data separated by
> hard returns.
>
> The really strange thing is that the first WriteLine (querying the
> encoding of the streamwriter shows ASCII), but the second one shows
> UTF-8. I would doubt the DetermineFileType results, but when I try to
> open the file in notepad (or other text editors) the output is one
> long line of text with a little box where the hard return should be.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Steven Skarupa