RE: Little transformation problem

[Joseph_Kesselman]

>I just know that there is a class DOM_XMLDecl that refers to XML
Declaration
>nodes in the DOM

If that's appearing in the DOM tree, it sounds like you have a DOM
implementation that has done something nonstandard.

><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> is what I call,
maybe
>wrongly, an "XML Declaration Node".

Yes, that's an XML Declaration, but not necessarily a node in the DOM --
see the references I provided.