> This will omit the whole xml tag i only want to omit the 
> encoding="utf-8" 
> from the beginning tag...

If the receiving software requires <?xml version="1.0"?> but doesn't
allow <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> then you should tell the
authors of that software that it's not XML-compliant.

Michael Kay


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