Hi, Maarten --
the asXML() method just provides you an easy way to get a default Sting-value of your document.
However, including an encoding declaration in a Java string doesn't really make sense... It's a hint for a parser reading a binary stream to know how to interpret what follows. There are no rules for how XML is represented in memory (outside of DOM or dom4J or XOM, etc.), but including the encoding declaration in a String doesn't seem (to me) like the right thing to do.
-- Paul
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