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encoding bug in xsl:comment

           Summary: encoding bug in xsl:comment
           Product: XalanJ2
           Version: 2.5Dx
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Xalan
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: b.eicki@gmx.net


I used the current binaries from xalanj2 (Version 2.5.2) and I've found a bug 
with the processing of xsl:comment. If you try to transform a xml-file via the 
following xsl-file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="test">
<xsl:comment>Kommentar Björn:<xsl:value-of select="'test'"/></xsl:comment>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

you get the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.
sax.SAXException: Attempt to output character of integral value 246 that is not 
represented in specific output encoding of .

This exception does not occur if you just have within the xsl-file a comment 
like

<xsl:comment>Kommentar Björn:</xsl:comment>

but again does occur if the xsl-file contains a comment like

<xsl:comment><xsl:value-of select="'test Björn'"/></xsl:comment>

It seems that if the xsl-comment has got more or something else than a single 
text-child that the specified encoding is not used. Thus if you then use special 
characters of these encodings like the 'ö' out of ISO-8859-1, you get the above 
exception.