With MSXML2 it insisted on outputting 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="yes"?>
 even though i had <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"  
doctype-system="-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN" 
doctype-public="<http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-2000030 3-
stylable.dtd" standalone="yes" />  in my stylesheet which caused an error: 
encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect: line1, column 30 
 If you remove the encoding then it works fine. 

anybody who meet the same problem, thank you


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