sorry forgot to mention that tried with specifying the encoding in toxml()
too but with same results.
>>> e.toxml("UTF-8")
'<abc>&lt;hello&gt;bhaskar&lt;/hello&gt;</abc>'
>>> e.toxml("utf-8")
'<abc>&lt;hello&gt;bhaskar&lt;/hello&gt;</abc>'
Thanks.
Bhaskar.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM, bhaskar jain
<[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am stuck while escaping "<" and ">" in the xml file using
> xml.dom.minidom.
> I tried to get the unicode hex value and use that instead (
> http://slayeroffice.com/tools/unicode_lookup/)
> Tried to use the standard "<" and ">" but still with no success.
> I saw similar bugs in python bugzilla - http://bugs.python.org/issue5752and
> some others but not sure.
>
>
> >>> from xml.dom.minidom import Document
> >>> doc = Document()
> >>> e = doc.createElement("abc")
> >>> s1 = '<hello>bhaskar</hello>'
> >>> text = doc.createTextNode(s1)
> >>> e.appendChild(text)
> <DOM Text node "<hello>bha...">
>
> >>> e.toxml()
> '<abc><hello>bhaskar</hello></abc>'
>
> same result with writexml()
>
>
> >>> from xml.dom.minidom import Document
> >>> doc = Document()
> >>> e = doc.createElement("abc")
> >>> s1 = u'<hello>bhaskar</hello>'
> >>> text = doc.createTextNode(s1)
> >>> e.appendChild(text)
> <DOM Text node "<hello&...">
>
> >>> e.toxml()
> u'<abc>&lt;hello&gt;bhaskar&lt;/hello&gt;</abc>'
>
>
> Tried other ways but with same results.
> Only way is to override the writer and replace like shown here -
> http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t330646-a-simple-xmldomminidom-question.html
> .
>
> Has anybody solved this?
>
> I want to have a text node with contents as
> "ds:X509Certificate>-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- </ds:X509Certificate>".
> Creating an element as "ds:x509Certificate" and then creating a text node
> with the certificate and appending it to the element works but a third
> party-library fails to parse it.
> So would like to have a single text node with the contents.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Bhaskar.
>
>
>
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