TM123 wrote:I'm using Notepad++
I think it was set to "Encode in UTF-8 without BOM"
Me too, so that is not the problem.
What happens if you change the extension to .xml and try to open it up in your browser? If it says something like "XML Parsing Error" then you have messed up the XML somehow.
Could you upload an example that fails so we could take a look?