XSLT transformation in ASP: non-standard XML encoding

If you want to generate documents with non-standard encodings with server-side XSLT transformation in IIS/ASP environment, you should:

• Set the Response.Charset property to the desired character set;
• Set the Response.Codepage property to the desired code page (or use the <%@ LANGUAGE="VBScript" CODEPAGE="codepage" %> directive in your ASP script).
• Omit XML declaration from the translated text (using omit-xml-declaration=”yes” attribute in xsl:output element) and prepend the desired XML declaration in front of the translated text.

For example, the following program generates XML (or XHTML) document encoded in windows-1250 character set (codepage: 1250) …

<%
Const DOMClass = "MSXML2.DOMDocument"
Set XSLT = Server.CreateObject(DOMClass)
Set XDoc = Server.CreateObject(DOMClass)
XDoc.loadXML("<root greek='&#946;' ee='č' />")
XSLT.load(Server.MapPath("SampleXSLT.xsl"))
Response.Clear
Response.Charset = "windows-1250"
Response.Codepage = 1250
Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
Response.Write "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1250'?>"
Response.Write XDoc.transformNode(XSLT)
%>

… when using the following XSL transformation:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
… rest deleted …