Stefan Scholl wrote: > Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Stefan Scholl wrote: >>> Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Stefan Scholl wrote: >>>>> Well, http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.html is missing >>>>> the fact, that I can't use Unicode with parseString(). >>>>> >>>>> This parseString() uses cStringIO. >>>> Well, Python unicode is not a valid *byte* encoding for XML. >>>> >>>> lxml.etree can parse unicode, if you really want, but otherwise, you should >>>> maybe stick to well-formed XML. >>> The XML is well-formed. Works perfect in Python 2.4 with Python >>> unicode and Python sax parser. >> The XML is *not* well-formed if you pass Python unicode instead of a byte >> encoded string. Read the XML spec. >> >> It would be well-formed if you added the proper XML declaration, but that is >> system specific (UCS-4 or UTF-16, BE or LE). So don't even try. > > Who cares? I'm not calling any external tools.
XML cares. If you want to work with something that is not XML, do not expect XML tools to help you do it. XML tools work with XML, and there is a spec that says what XML is. Your string is not XML. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
