Re: elementtree.SimpleXMLWriter and xmlcharrefreplace

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:16:14 -0800 

My current version of SimpeXMLWriter is:
$Id: SimpleXMLWriter.py 1862 2004-06-18 07:31:02Z Fredrik $
I'm testing this on in python2.3.5 and python2.4.3.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'll try to explain my problem with code.
> The problem is the output
>
> msg = u"Södertälje & Borås" # latin1 unicode string with a &
>
> from elementtree.SimpleXMLWriter import XMLWriter
> from cStringIO import StringIO
> out = StringIO()
> w = XMLWriter(out)
> body = w.start("body")
> w.element("text", msg)
> w.close(body)
> return out.getvalue()
>
> Here's the output I get:
> <body><text>S&#246;dert&#228;lje &#38;amp; Bor&#229;s</text></body>
> Here's what I would want and expect:
> <body><text>S&#246;dert&#228;lje &amp; Bor&#229;s</text></body>
>
> Notice that & is converted to &#38;amp; when it should be &amp; or &38;
> only.

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