> Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but if omit-xml-declaration="yes", then the 
> parser that reads in your outputted XML will think it is UTF-8? 

UTF-8 or UTF-16, depending on whether there is a UTF-16 byte order mark
at the beginning.

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