Stefan Behnel wrote:
In the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), it is a fatal error for an entity including an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML processor in an encoding other than that named in the declaration [...]
But if the XML has already been decoded and turned into a Python unicode string, there *is* external information about the encoding -- we know it's encoded however Python represents unicode internally. So this clause doesn't apply. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
