Hi chris, hi dieter, I also have this problem with using xmlrpc from a python client with zope. > > RuntimeError: Syntax error at line 34: illegal character in content > > This was the bane of one of our projects to the point where Andy re-wrote > ZMailIn to no-longer use XML-RPC. > > It's to do with stuff-which-should-probably-be-entities but we never tracked > down what wasn't encoding something when it should have done. > I'd blame the marshalling code in xmlrpclib.py myself. > > If you ever fix this, do let us know :-) > I have a Zope 2.3.1 server running as well as a Zope 2.3.2. I developed an Service-Framework on the first and then tried to install it on the 2.3.2 .. it failed I printed out the raw data of the transmission and they differ: When I call the function on Zope-2.3.1 i get this response: --------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version='1.0'?> <methodResponse> <params> <param> <value><string>OK</string></value> </param> </params> </methodResponse> --------------------------------------------------------- when I call the same function on the same backend on Zope-2.3.2 I get the following: --------------------------------------------------------- X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python (www.python.org) Content-Length: 128 Connection: close Content-Type: text/xml <?xml version='1.0'?> <methodResponse> <params> <param> <value><string>OK</string></value> </param> </params> </methodResponse> --------------------------------------------------------- There is some header-information in the body (that perhaps shoudn't be there) Where there any changes in Zope 2.3.1 -> 2.3.2 in the Publishing part ?? With the second response the xmllib-parser won't work as we see. any suggestions to that ?? did you guy's updated to Zope-2.3.2 recently ?? thanks for any response and hope this helps a bit .. Ulrich Eck net-labs _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )