This may be a solution if I am not getting you wrong. 1.write the whole string to a file 2.feed that to xml.dom.minidom.parse 3.retrieve whole or childnodes from toxml
BhaskarJain wrote: > > Hello, > > I am stuck while escaping "<" and ">" in the xml file using > xml.dom.minidom. > I tried to get the unicode hex value and use that instead ( > http://slayeroffice.com/tools/unicode_lookup/) > Tried to use the standard "<" and ">" but still with no success. > I saw similar bugs in python bugzilla - > http://bugs.python.org/issue5752and some others but not sure. > > >>>> from xml.dom.minidom import Document >>>> doc = Document() >>>> e = doc.createElement("abc") >>>> s1 = '<hello>bhaskar</hello>' >>>> text = doc.createTextNode(s1) >>>> e.appendChild(text) > <DOM Text node "<hello>bha..."> > >>>> e.toxml() > '<abc><hello>bhaskar</hello></abc>' > > same result with writexml() > > >>>> from xml.dom.minidom import Document >>>> doc = Document() >>>> e = doc.createElement("abc") >>>> s1 = u'<hello>bhaskar</hello>' >>>> text = doc.createTextNode(s1) >>>> e.appendChild(text) > <DOM Text node "<hello&..."> > >>>> e.toxml() > u'<abc>&lt;hello&gt;bhaskar&lt;/hello&gt;</abc>' > > > Tried other ways but with same results. > Only way is to override the writer and replace like shown here - > http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t330646-a-simple-xmldomminidom-question.html > . > > Has anybody solved this? > > I want to have a text node with contents as > "ds:X509Certificate>-----BEGIN > CERTIFICATE----- </ds:X509Certificate>". > Creating an element as "ds:x509Certificate" and then creating a text node > with the certificate and appending it to the element works but a third > party-library fails to parse it. > So would like to have a single text node with the contents. > > Thanks. > > --Bhaskar. > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/escaping-for-xml-tp26054890p26061412.html Sent from the BangPypers - Bangalore Python Users Group mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
