Dim oXMLWriter As Xml.XmlWriter
        Dim oSettings As New Xml.XmlWriterSettings
        oSettings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Entitize
        oSettings.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8
        oSettings.Indent = True
        oSettings.IndentChars = ""
        oXMLWriter = Xml.XmlWriter.Create("C:\tst.xml", oSettings)

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