Hi,

I think I may have a slight encoding problem with what I am doing.

I have a test console app that takes an xml document and splits it
into a number of smaller xml documents.

First thing I do is clone the input document. At the moment I am just
saving this document and when I do a windiff on the documents I see some
surouis characters at the beginning of the document I saved.

I guess these are the byte order marks - however if I edit this doc in
VS.Net or notepad these chars are not visible.

Code thus far is very simple:

  // load the schema input file
  XmlDocument inputXmlDoc = new XmlDocument() ;
  inputXmlDoc.PreserveWhitespace = true ;
  inputXmlDoc.Load( inputFileFullName ) ;

  // clone the input document
  XmlDocument outputXmlDoc = (XmlDocument) inputXmlDoc.CloneNode( true ) ;
  outputXmlDoc.PreserveWhitespace = true ;

  // save the manifest file
  outputXmlDoc.Save( manifestFullName ) ;

Could the problem just be with WinDiff?

Thanks

Donal