Re: losing entities when parsing then texting
Andrew Clover <[email protected]>
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Greg Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I realize I should include the Unicode characters directly in my files, > but that's not possible in this case---I have to accommodate people who > are using editors that only handle 7-bit ASCII. Theoretically, .toxml('us-ascii') should generate usable output. Unfortunately minidom doesn't really do this properly and you'll get a UnicodeError. As a workaround you could just take the UTF-8 encoded version and .encode('us-ascii', 'xmlcharrefreplace') on it... which is technically the wrong thing if nodeNames or CDATASections or whatever have non-ASCII characters in, but that probably doesn't matter to you. ObStandardPlug: pxdom supports both proper charref-escaping (using DOM3LS DOMOutput.encoding) and keeping EntityReference nodes (using DOM3Core DOMConfiguration.setParameter('entities', True) or pxdom.parse(file, {'entities': True}).) -- Andrew Clover mailto:[email protected] http://www.doxdesk.com/ _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig