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<td valign=top><font SIZE="2">encoding</td>
<td><font SIZE="2">A character encoding, e.g. iso-8859-1 or utf-8. The value must be one recognised
both by the Java run-time system and by Saxon itself: the encoding names that Saxon recognises are ASCII,
US-ASCII, iso-8859-1, utf-8, utf8, KOI8R, cp1251. It is used for three distinct purposes: to control character conversion
by the Java I/O routines; to determine which characters will be represented as character entities; and
to document the encoding i