On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:59:09 +0900, Stuart Clarke wrote:

> First, each character is delimited by a null character - this is not a
> problem I am I have found a solution to remove the null characters thus
> giving text similar to that above. I am not struggling how I get from an
> array containing the above data with null characters removed to parsing
> the XML?

Isn't that form of delimiting more commonly called UTF-16 (which
happens also to be a valid XML encoding ...)?

-jh