What is the encoding of your XML file ? i.e in the string "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="<encoding>"?>, what is <encoding> ?
Make sure it is an encoding like utf-8 or iso-8859-1 which can help the parser to understand garbage chars. --Anand On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Gurpreet Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Any idea how to handle the unicode characters existing in an xml file while > parsing it. > > This is what I am doing: > > from xml.dom import minidom > > xmlObj = minidom.parse(fileobj) > > And the script throws an error because of some special characters ['f > (3gpÕ¡¤ë'] present in the xml file. Any suggestion/pointers would be > appreciated > > Thanks and Regards, > Gurpreet Singh > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
