Stephen Waterbury wrote:
> [If there is a separate list for elementtree, please someone
> clue me ... I didn't see one.]
the xml-sig is preferred, I think.
> Fredrik or other xml / elementtree gurus:
>
> I see from the source that ElementTree.write() writes
>
> <?xml version="1.0"? encoding=[whatever]>
>
> at the beginning of the xml output if an encoding
> other than utf-8 or us-ascii is selected. Shouldn't
> it also write that if utf-8 or us-ascii is being
> used? Or at least the
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
this is mostly for historical reasons; early versions only supported UTF-8
output,
and never generated encoding directives, so people ended up writing:
print >>myfile, "<document>"
for elem in list_of_elements:
ElementTree(elem).write(myfile)
print >>myfile, "</document>"
version 1.3 will probably include an option to always write the header.
(note that the XML header isn't needed for UTF-8 and ASCII; if it's not there,
a proper XML parser will treat the stream as UTF-8, and ASCII is a compatible
subset of UTF-8).
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