Thanks for the information.  Right, the problem is that UTF-8 will convert é 
to double bytes instead, I need it to be single byte.  I can't change the 
encoding as my XML file will contain Chinese as well so it has to be UTF-8.  
I spent lots of time to do research about this but still no luck, hope 
someone can give me a solution here.  Thanks all in advance.

"Anthony Jones" wrote:

> >The reason why I need to keep it as "& # x e 9" is that I
> >have another application need this file as an Input, that application can
> >only run correctly in "& # x e 9" form.
> 
> Is this other application loading this file into an XML DOM?
> If not what is it using to parse the XML document?
> 
> I don't think there is a way to convince MSXML to escape characters that do
> not need escaping.
> 
> You might try changing the document encoding to "windows-1252" instead of
> the default UTF-8 :-
> 
>     oDOM.insertBefore oDOM.createProcessingInstruction("xml",
> "version=""1.0"" encoding=""windows-1252"""), oDOM.documentElement
> 
> I suspect what your other application is objecting to is the UTF-8 encoding
> for é which will be a multi-byte encoding.  Using windows-1252 will cause é
> to be encoded as a single byte with the value of  E9.
> 
> Anthony.
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