"Jason Burr" <JasonBurr@d...> wrote in message 
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> Ok esplain this to me por favor. I don't get it.
>
> Using Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP and retrieving the data then printing out the
> responseText it shows encoding as utf-8 (as supplied by the data 
> provider).
>
> After loading the responseText into the Microsoft.XMLDOM via the loadXML()
> and printing out the .xml data it strips out the encoding type.
>
> Whats more puzzeling is that everything I have read seems to say that the
> dom will default to utf-8 so why would it have stripped the encoding and 
> not
> work with it (the xsl)?
>
> Also for whatever reason I can not get resonpseXML to work in loading the
> dom only responseText. I tried Set oXML = oXHTTP.responseXML and oXML =
> oXHTTP.responseXML and loadXML(oXHTTP.responseXML) the list goes on to no
> avail. At best I get nothing (though there is clearly an error) and at 
> worst
> it errors out. (where oXML is Microsoft.XMLDOM and oXHTTP is
> Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP)
>
> Why on gods green earth would the dom alter the contents of the xml loaded
> into it without some explicit declaration to do so? Further what can I do 
> to
> avoid this. I realize that this has strayed off topic some but since it
> started here.....
>
>
>
Try using the latest versions, msxml2.serverxmlhttp.4.0.

How do you know the encoding declaration is stripped? Showing dom.xml aways 
shows in utf-16 without a declation because it's a string.

Joe (MVP-XML)