Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Scholl wrote: >> Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The XML is *not* well-formed if you pass Python unicode instead of a byte >>> encoded string. Read the XML spec. >> >> Pointers, please. > > There you have it: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charencoding > > """ > In the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol (e.g. > HTTP or MIME), it is a *fatal error* for an entity including an encoding > Byte Order Mark nor an encoding declaration to use an encoding other than > UTF-8. > """
> specific). You might argue that there is some kind of "external transportation > protocol" as it is a Python Unicode string (I used that excuse when I Not the string itself. The method that ist called: parseString() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
