> I'm using xalan to transform XML documents to RTF.  It works 
> fine except I
> get the 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> line as the first line 
> of my file
> which has 
> to be stripped off before it will work as a RTF document.

Use <xsl:output method="text"/>

Mike Kay 

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