Jan Danielsson wrote: > I'm using ElementTree to create an XHTML page (mod_python, blah, > blah, blah). When I use ElementTree.tostring(root) to create a buffer > which I want to return to the client, it doesn't include the XML prolog
As Martin told you, this is spec-compliant behaviour. Still, ElementTree 1.3 is expected to add a keyword argument "xml_declaration" in tostring() that will let you override the default behaviour. lxml.etree already implements that, BTW. http://codespeak.net/lxml > I could simply prefix the tostring output with a string containing my > "<?xml ...>" schtick. But let's, for the sake of argument, say that I > trust a library more to generate it for me, rather than hand coding it > myself (not entirely true, but let's assume that is the case). Some people propose just that if you really *want* a declaration. No need to have it, though, as ET will create well-formed XML anyway. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
