removing a line from xml file created thr' code

[svibuk]

a xml file is created thr' code using vb6.0 & parsed for validation using sax parser
when paarsing due to line formating
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?> gets appended to the existing data at the start of the file ie the first line
is there any way that it culd be deleted programatically

i tried thi smethod
Dim xmldom1 As MSXML2.DOMDocument40
xmldom1.Load FileName

Dim toRemove As String
toRemove = "UTF-16"
Set nodeTemp = xmldom1.selectSingleNode("xml version/encoding[@standalone = '" + toRemove + "']")
nodeInvoiceItems.parentNode.removeChild (nodeTemp)


but nothing dne