Couldn't output CORRECT character for XML entities.

Hi,

I have the following XML file
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book SYSTEM "book.dtd">
<book>
<chapter>
<chapinfo>
<title>THE EFFECT OF &mdash; CONSERVATION LAWS</title>
<author>Tom Sealy</author>
</chapinfo>
<chapbody>
Colonel Drake &mu; discovered oil in Pennsylvania.
</chapbody>
</chapter>
</book>
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The DTD is...
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<?xml encoding="utf-8"?>

<!ENTITY % Text "(#PCDATA)*">

<!ELEMENT book (chapter*)>
<!ELEMENT chapter (chapinfo,chapbody)>
<!ELEMENT chapinfo (title,author)>
<!ELEMENT chapbody %Text;>

<!ELEMENT title %Text; >
<!ELEMENT author %Text; >

<!ENTITY mdash "—">
<!ENTITY mu "&#x3BC;">
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Now I wrote a VB program that accesses this XML file and updates the Access Database.
Here goes a fragment of it...
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Dim objXMLDOM As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
Dim objNodes As IXMLDOMNodeList
Dim objBookNode As IXMLDOMNode
Dim title As IXMLDOMNode
Dim author As IXMLDOMNode
Dim body As IXMLDOMNode

objXMLDOM.Load("book.xml")

Set objNodes = objXMLDOM.selectNodes("/book")
For Each objBookNode In objNodes
'go to all chapters nodes
For Each child In objBookNode.childNodes
ch=child.childNodes(0).childNodes(0)
If ch.nodeName = "title" then
t=ch.nodeTypedValue
'insert t in the field "title" of the chapter table
End If
......
Next
Next
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But the problem is that, the entities are not correctly replaced with their character equivalents. Instead, a square symbol(&#148 is inserted in its place.

Can anyone tell me how I could let my program convert these entities into CORRECT character representation?

Any help is grately appreciated!

Thanks a lot!

-Srivalli.


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In the above post, the entities are correctly replaced(both in the XML file and the DTD) by the characters they represent.

mdash stands for &_#_151_; (without _ )
mu stands for &_#_x3BC_; (without _ )

But my VB program puts them as square symbols, for some unknown reason. Could anyone solve this?

Thanks.

-Srivalli.