DataSet.WriteXml cutting off first 3 characters

[sde]

When I call DataSet.WriteXml(), it writes the file, but the first 3 characters are cut off.

 

example:

nfigs xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
 <config></config>
</cofigs>

 

it is correct before i read the xml, but when it goes to write the xml, it cuts <co off the root node. any ideas why this might be happening?

[sde]

nm, i had the file open in an external editor. the charset must have changed to utf-8 from what it was originally and the file needed to be re-opened.