Preserving entities in MSXML2.DOMDocument

Hi

My VB program accesses a XML document that has general entity references (like — etc....) and populates the appropriate fields in the Access Database.

fRAGMENT OF MY CODE...
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Dim objXMLDOM As New MSXML2.DOMDocument
objXMLDOM.Load(filePath)
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The problem is that, the DEFAULT implementation of the parser EXPANDS the entity references, which is what I DO NOT want.

Is there any way to tell the parser NOT to expand entities?

Any help is grately appreciated!

Thanks a lot.
-Srivalli.