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. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
