>-----Original Message-----
>"Hilary" <anonymous@d...> wrote...
>> I'm having a problem encoding a generated XML file with
>> UTF-8.
>>
>> In VBA I create a file for output using the "Open <file
>> name> For Output" command, and then extract information
>> from an Access DB and write it to the file using
>> the "PRINT" command. My XML declaration statement
>> specifies the encoding to be UTF-8: <?xml version="1.0"
>> encoding="UTF-8"?> . However, when I view the XML file
>> using IE, I get an "invalid character was found in text
>> context" error. I know this is resulting from the 
document
>> content not being encoded.
>
>Guessing here, but I suspect that you're printing out in 
a different
>encoding (maybe ISO-8859-1, maybe UCS-2). Can't give a 
solid answer without
>seeing the code.
>
>> I need to be able to generate xml files that are 
properly
>> encoded with UTF-8. Does anyone know how I could
>> programmaticallly do this in VBA?
>
>you'd need to use the save() method on your XML object 
instead (which will
>know about serialisation)
>
>
>.
>

Thanks Rowland, that worked a treat!