Need to remove <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> from the xml

Question

Hi i am generating a xml by appying the xsl to a xml input. I need the output without this part "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>"

input--xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <soap:Body> <CreateResponse xmlns="http://jerseytelecom.com/">     <CreateResult>         <ISD_XMLGateway>             <Entity>RIM_BPS</Entity>          </ISD_XMLGateway>     </CreateResult>    </CreateResponse> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>  

my xsl

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:JT="http://jerseytelecom.com/" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" exclude-result-prefixes="JT">          <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>          <xsl:template match="/">            <xsl:element name="Entity">             <xsl:value-of select="soap:Envelope/soap:Body/JT:CreateResponse/JT:CreateResult/JT:ISD_XMLGateway/JT:Entity"/>               </xsl:element>             </xsl:template>             </xsl:stylesheet> 

Current output

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>     <Entity>RIM_BPS</Entity> 

Expected Output

    <Entity>RIM_BPS</Entity> 

Answer 1

Try adding the omit-xml-declaration="yes" attribute to your xsl:output tag.

It should then read like this:

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />