Can someone confirm that what is being described stems from a bug in MSXML?
I'm recalling something about it but I'm not sure of the details....
it depends how you define "bug"
it's a dcumented and frustrating incompatibility.
If you call msxml via script you can set a preservewhitespace flag to
turn off this behaviour, but if you directly pass the file to IE it
calls msxml with this flag helpfully set to be incompatible.
putting xml:space="preserve" at the top of your input file
turns this off.
David
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