>>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 ?
>
>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.
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>Gary.

I concur with Dragan, this is not utf8

With a hex editor I see after 'Hanna ' the hex values C33F C23F

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 , the C3 tells it's a two byte sequence. The next byte is 3F and that cannot be a continuation byte. A continuation byte should be 8x, 9x, Ax or Bx