On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:54:30 +0100, Martin v. LÃwis wrote: > Luis P. Mendes wrote: >> When I access the url via the Firefox browser and look into the source >> code, I also get: >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <string >> xmlns="http................"><DataSet> ~ <Order> >> ~ <Customer>439</Customer> ~ </Order> >> </DataSet></string> > > Please do try to understand what you are seeing. This is crucial for > understanding what happens.
>From extremely painful and lengthy personal experience, Luis, I ***extremely*** strongly recommend taking the time to nail this down until you really, really, really understand what is going on. Until you can explain it to somebody else coherently, ideally. Mixing escaping levels like this absolutely, positively *must* be done correctly, or extremely-painful-to-debug problems will result. (My painful experience was layering an RPC implementation in plain text on top of IM messages, where I was dealing with everything from the socket level up except the XML parser. Ultimately it turned out there was a problem in the XML parser, it rendered "&amp;" as "&", which is wrong wrong wrong. But that took a *long* time to find, especially as I had other bugs in the way.) Since you're layering XML in XML, test &amp; and &amp;amp; to make sure they work correctly; those usually show encoding errors. And, given your current understanding of the issue, do not write your own decoding function unless you absolutely can't avoid it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
