Info on using Formatting Objects

Can anyone suggest where I can get information on using Formatting Objects?
I tried some basic examples and I'm not having any luck.  I keep getting
this error when I try to Transform the page.  Do I need a different parser?
I'm currently using MSXML parser version 2.6.

This is the error I'm getting back in IE.
Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not supported. Line 1,
Position 40

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><fo:layout-master-set
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"><fo:simple-page-master
master-name="A4" page-width="297mm" page-height="210mm" margin-top="0.5in"
margin-bottom="0.5in" margin-left="0.5in"
margin-right="0.5in"><fo:region-before extent="1.0in" /><fo:region-body
margin-top="1.0in"
/></fo:simple-page-master></fo:layout-master-set><fo:page-sequence
master-name="A4"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"><fo:static-content
flow-name="xsl-region-before"><fo:block>The Periodic
Table</fo:block></fo:static-content><fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">

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