WebLogic returns funny characters in XML

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I have an application developed on Tomcat that includes a servlet that receives and XML post, processes the XML, then constructs an XML response packet (using JDOM) and flushes the response packet back to the calling process. This worked great under Tomcat, however now that I have ported it to WebLogic 6.1sp3, WebLogic appears to be adding some funny characters at the beginning and end of the XML response packet. Here's what it looks like.
00ae
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<scansresponse>
<transferresult>failure</transferresult>
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0000
Any ideas on what might be causing this and how I can correct this problem? I've tried many different things and am stumped.
Thanks,
Chris

Your funny characters are from http "chunking". See the following link for more info: http://ken.coar.org/slides/HTTP/Chunking.html .
Each chunk is a hex number that indicates how big the chunk is. This can be a good thing! Processing the xml in chunks is faster than looping through it line by line.

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