xml documents with multiple encoded text

[Devanathan, Ramkumar (HP Software BTO)]

hi,
 
i have a tough situation wherein the xml document that i need to
transform is all utf-16 (encoding specified in the xml declaration is
also utf-16) but 1 particular element in the xml field has content
that's actually utf-8. when i view this document in wordpad the utf-8
content appears as 'boxes' (basically junk).
 
knowing that this content is always utf-8, can i still attempt a
transformation - does xalan allow for such a scenario - if so, how?
 
as of now, the transformation renders the text as an empty string - this
is with Xalan 1.10.
 
of course, the obvious solution to get the xml document fixed, is
something that we could do, but that brings other complications for
existing apps (java based) that have already factored this incongruence
within their implementation. so this is a possible but last option.
 
Thank you.
 
Ramkumar Devanathan
HP Software BTO R&D
Bangalore
India
PHONE: (91)-80-251-67214