XML reformatting on load

[Ashaelon]

I'm fairly new to developing XML (I know enough to be dangerous) and I am having a problem (in VBA) when I load an XML document, it seems to reformat my XML (and incorrectly at that). I don't want the XML formatted. How do I keep it from reformatting?

Here are is some of the code I am using:

    Dim xmlDoc As MSXML2.DOMDocument60          'early bind

...

    Set xmlDoc = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60                   'early bind

...

    xmlDoc.async = False
    xmlDoc.validateOnParse = False   'put this attempting to stop formatting
    xmlDoc.resolveExternals = False   'put this attempting to stop formatting
    'open the XML file
    If xmlDoc.Load(fso.BuildPath(xmlDocPath, UIN & ".xml")) Then
        Debug.Print xmlDoc.XML
...

    Else

...

    End If

Here is the XML before load:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><assessmentItem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" keyType="SingleResponse" schema="our XML schema" schemaVersion="1.0" guid="4EE3791C-BB87-4577-BAE3-973A4C8E2FAB" uin="123456"><itemBody><stemArea id="stem1"><text id="text1">some text here<i> </i>text<i> </i>more text here</text></stemArea</itemBody></assessmentItem>

Here is the XML generated immediately after load (debug.print xmlDoc.XML):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<assessmentItem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" keyType="SingleResponse" schema="our XML schema" schemaVersion="1.0" guid="4EE3791C-BB87-4577-BAE3-973A4C8E2FAB" uin="123456"><itemBody><stemArea id="stem1"><text id="text1">some text here<i>
                </i>text<i>
                </i>more text here</text></stemArea></itemBody></assessmentItem>

Again, how can I stop it from reformatting the XML? I need it to be unformatted.