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.