Joe,

Tried 3.0 to no avail. Server does not have 4.0 installed so not an option. 
Though I don't think thats the core issue. 

I do response.write oXML.xml without setting contenttype to text/xml (which 
I wouldn't be doing anyway as the actual content type output to client would 
be text/html). Anyway I suspect based on what others have said that this may 
inacurately convey what the encoding type is. However doing this

strOutPut = oXHTTP.responseText 
Response.Write strOutPut
Produces this at client
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

Doing this
oXML.loadXML(strOutPut)
Response.Write oXML.xml
Produces this at client
<?xml version="1.0"?>

My assumption and possibly very wrong is that the same is true when I do the 
transformNodeToObject call and apply the xsl to it thus a different encoding. 

I will post full code in response to Martins post.

Thanks again to everyone for their comments and suggestions.

Jason


"Joe Fawcett" wrote:

> "Jason Burr" <JasonBurr@d...> wrote in message 
> news:00A280D4-63FB-4057-9B68-999FA0FE36ED@m......
> > 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)
> 
> 
>