On Jul 26, 3:13 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 26, 9:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > OK, I solved the problem but I still don't get what went wrong. > > Solution - use tree builder in order to create the new xml file > > (previously I was "manually" creating it). > > > I'm still curious so I'm adding a link to a short and very simple > > script that gets an xml (containing non ascii chars) from the web and > > saves some of the elements to 2 different local xml files - one is > > created by XMLWriter and the other is created manually. you could see > > that parsing of the first local file is OK while parsing of the > > "manually" created xml file fails. obviously I'm doing something wrong > > and I'd love to learn what. > > > the toy script:http://staff.science.uva.nl/~otsur/code/xmlConversions.py > > Simple file comparison: > > File 1: ... Modern Church. <p>The book ... > File 2: ... Modern Church. <p>The book ... > > Firefox: > > XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </p>. > Location: file:///C:/junk/myDeVinciCode166_2.xml > Line Number 3, Column 1153: > > <CONTENT>The...Church. <p>The...thrill.</CONTENT> > ------------------------------------------^
yup, but why does this happen - on the script side - I write the exact same strings, of content with supposedly, same encoding, so why the encoding is different? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list