Re: Writing XML files with ElementTree
"Fredrik Lundh" <[email protected]>
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Kent Tenney wrote:
> write() says
>
> elif encoding != "utf-8" and encoding != "us-ascii":
> file.write("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='%s'?>\n" % encoding)
>
> How do I get the declaration written if I want
> encoding to be utf-8 ?
since it's usually not needed (the declaration is optional if the file's using
UTF-8 or a compatible encoding), you have to add it yourself.
the upcoming 1.3 release has a "xml_declaration" option that gives you
more control over this. lxml.etree also implements that, iirc.
</F>
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