XML Encoding Stripped when Loaded

[mtone]

I am using vbscript to execute web services. Normally we can leave encoding out of the declaration line but we need it for chinese characters. When I load the xml from a stream (.LoadXML(...)) the encoding attribute gets stripped from the page declaration. If I try to load the file into the DOM it errors with no reason. Even If I try to set the declaration after loading it still does not showup in the XML Text. InputFolderXML = XMLTEXT from a file Set XmlInputDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.FreeThreadedDOMDocument.4.0") LoadXmlResult = XmlInputDoc.loadXml(InputFolderXML) XmlInputDoc.CreateXmlDeclaration "1.0", "gb2312", Nothing Any Help will be greatly appreciated Thanks Joe