Question

After an XSLT transformation I keep getting leading question marks that (seem to) have to do with character encoding, but I can’t get rid of them. I have tried all different encodings, but it didn’t help. I’m stuck with an in-memory xml source, as I serialize objects.

This is my code (as short as possible to reproduce the problem)

var xd = new XmlDocument();
xd.LoadXml(@"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?><Test><AAA>AAA</AAA></Test>");

var xslt = new System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform();
xslt.Load(Server.MapPath("/Transformations/Test.xslt"));

using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
    xslt.Transform(xd, null, ms);
    ms.Position = 1;

    using (var sr = new StreamReader(ms, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8, true))
    {
        string s = sr.ReadToEnd();
    }
}

And this is the XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl">
    <xsl:output method="text"  indent="no"/>
    <xsl:template match="Test">
        BBB<xsl:value-of select="AAA" />CCC
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Produces:

��\r\n\t\tBBBAAACCC\r\n\t

It’s probably very simple, but I can’t figure it out…

Regards,

Heras

Answer 1

Set the ms.Position to 0 instead of 1

C# arrays are zero indexed.