I have a module that uses xml.sax and feeds it a string of xml as in xml.sax.parseString(dictfile,handler)
The xml is always encoded in utf-16, and the XML string always starts with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="no"?> This almost always works fine, but two users of this module get an exception whatever input they use it on. (The actual xml is generated by an api in our application that returns an xml version of metadata associated with the application's data.) The exception is xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: <unknown>:1:30: encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect. In both of these cases, there are only plain, 7-bit ascii characters in the xml, and it really is valid utf-16 as far as I can tell. Now here is the hard part: This never happens to me, and having gotten the actual xml content from one of the users and fed it to the parser, I don't get the exception. What could be going on? We are all on Python 2.5 (and all on an English locale). Any suggestions would be appreciated. -Jon Peck -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
