Weird characters in Hex viewer when i check a xml

Hi,
We are in the test phase sending messages to a customer of us. But when we send test messages the customer tells me that there are weird characters in the xml. It happens when we check the xml in a hexadecimal viewer. In the normal viewer of in a webbrowser
we dont see these characters. He is a example of the situation:
Look at the characters before the <?XML
So my question is how can i get rid of these characters?
PS: these characters arent in the source files.

These characters are called the Byte Order Mark (BOM) and provided by/to the file system to indicate the encoding to be used when opening the file. You can read about it @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
And as Sumit has already mentioned, you can switch these ON/OFF based on the Pipeline Component properties. Even if you're using the default XMLTransmit, you can edit this property on the Specific Port.
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