VB6 DOM Reading XML File

[ianm]

In the following VB6 DOM code I am having trouble with output of the xml of the first child of the root

Dim procDBDoc As New DOMDocument

Private Sub Form_Load()

procDBDoc.async = False
procDBDoc.Load "F:\XML Test DOM Nodes\proceduresdb.xml"

MsgBox procDBDoc.documentElement.firstChild.xml

End Sub

The file "F:\XML Test DOM Nodes\proceduresdb.xml" comprises:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII" standalone="yes"?>
<ProceduresDB build="21/01/2002" version="1.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd D:\FSWork\FMC.xsd" xmlns="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Airport ICAOcode="CYHZ">
<Star Name="RWY06">
</Star>
</Airport>
</ProceduresDB>

Output is:

<Airport xmlns="http://tempuri.org/XMLSchema.xsd" ICAOcode="CYHZ">
<Star Name="RWY06">
</Star>
</Airport>

Why is the xmlns.................... section (I underlined it for this post) included in the output? How can I not have this when referrring to the firstChild?
Any help is appreciated
Cheers
Ian M