>>can you zip and attach your xml file ( and schema )
>Attached, there is no scheme as such it's an OTA standard (http://www.opentravel.org/)
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>>How do you read it ? XmlToCursor(), Xmladapter or Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0 ?
>>Can you show the code you use to read it ?
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>It's a straight forward parsing code, not XmlToCursor or anything clever, but you can't open the XML in IE or any other XML reader.

The header says UTF-8, but the markers for UTF-8 are absent, each character is one byte long - the text is ASCII, not UTF. So someone screwed up when writing this file.