Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> Unless, obviously, you were serialising to a non-utf8 encoding. But since the >> "toxml()" method seems to return unicode here (which sounds surprising), I >> expect it a) to provide no XML declaration at all or b) to be broken anyway. > > Or c) the user forgot to specify the encoding= parameter in toxml().
Then I would expect it a) to serialise to a UTF-8 compatible encoding that does not require a declaration (which excludes Python unicode) or b) to be broken. :) Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list