Pramod Subramanyan wrote:

> outXMLString = inputDoc.transformNode(stylesheet)
> ' Code to write outXMLString to a file


Well you have not shown us the essential code at all, the stylesheet (in 
particular its xsl:output element that might specify an output encoding) 
and of course the "Code to write outXMLString to a file". In terms of 
Unicode characters 'µ' is _one character_ and how many _bytes_ you need 
to encode this in a stream/file depends on the encoding choosen, UTF-8 
encodes the character with two bytes, ISO-8859-1 encodes the character 
with one byte.

Generally with MSXML and XSLT if you want to transform to a file then it 
is best to use transformNodeToObject to transform to a stream like 
ADODB.Stream as that way MSXML makes sure to properly encode the output. 
Or you can, as you have done, first transform to another DOMDocument and 
save that with its save method.

If you use transformNode to transform to a string then you have a 
sequence of Unicode characters as the result and your own code is then 
responsible to properly write that to a file, taking into account the 
encoding in the XML declaration.

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