XslCompiledTransform uses UTF-16 encoding

Question

I have the following code, which I want to output xml data using the UTF-8 encoding format. but it always outputs data in UTF-16 :

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Answer 1

If you use a MemoryStream in place of the StringBuilder, the XmlWriter will respect the encoding you specify in the XmlWriterSettings, since the MemoryStream doesn't have an inherent encoding like the StringBuilder does.

Answer 2

The XML output will contain a header that is based on the encoding of the stream, not the encoding specified in the settings. As strings are 16 bit unicode the encoding will be UTF-16. The workaround is to suppress the header and add it yourself instead:

writerSettings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;

Then when you get the result from the StringBuilder:

string xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n" + sb.ToString();