I must admit I am not too well versed on the intricacies of character encodings. My goal was (and is) simply to have the actual byte of data itself without it being processed in any sort of way.
Then you shouldn't be using an XML parser. XML operates on characters, not bytes. An XML parser *always* turns the bytes into characters before passing them to the client application. See http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml/chapters/15.html for more discussion of this point.
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