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Subject: Removing <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> from html output

From: "T.G. Mutato" <throw6617@gmail.com>
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 11:19:58 -0500

It appears that the XSL processor (I'm using xsltproc) automatically
adds the line

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

to html output. Although it's easy to change the output charset, I
haven't found a way to prevent the entire line from being output.

I've got a situation where I'm trying to convert DocBook 4.5 source to
a format that is loosely based on html; the <meta http-equiv...> is
not supported. I'd like the output to look like:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
   ...
</body>
</html>

Is there a method for turning off the <meta http-equiv...> added by
the XSL processor?

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