> I suspect there's a certain amount of unarticulated assumptions on both > sides of this exchange. I'm guessing that Bill might be thinking > something like: "it's possible to represent any Unicode character in XML > as &#<code-position-for character>"; and was hoping that the method > would do just that for the non-ASCII characters if he asks for ASCII > encoding.
Yep, that's what I was thinking. I don't see any other reason to have that parameter there. The reason I asked on this list (instead of just committing the change :-) is that I don't really know much about the grubby details of XML, and wanted to engage some minds to consider possible nasty side-effects of making that change. For instance, would emitting charrefs in a CDATA section or a Processing Instructions section really be a good idea? Bill _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
