>I am getting an xml page from with the innertext property of the internet explorer object. But doing so, I am getting the + and - that allows the user to colapse and extend parts of the xml. I need the raw data without these things.

Just speaking from HTML scraping, you can either get the interpreted/reformated source through the object model or get the raw source asking for the IPersist*-Interfaces, which corresponds to downloading the stuff via UrlDownloadToFile or one of the many other ways.

HTH

thomas