I'm not able to get out of this .......
from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplementation impl = getDOMImplementation() // default UTF-8 doc = impl.createDocument(None, "test",None) root = doc.documentElement root.setAttribute('myattrib', '5') print root.toxml() I obtain <test myattrib="5"/> why not this? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <test myattrib="5"/> thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list