On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim van der Leeuw wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Well -- you escape them in the save() method only when they contain XML > > charachters like <, > ? How about that, wouldn't that work? > > > > --Tim > > > ...... > That might work, but there are all the ampersands etc etc to consider as > well. > So an escaped string could contain &, but so can a raw string. > -- > Robin Becker > The way I see it, is that escaped XML is sure to contain ampersands, but 'real' XML is sure to contain < > brackets. If it doesn't contain any angle-brackets, then what's XML about it - it contains no tags? ;-) So I guess that looking for < or > will work as a heuristic, in 99.9999% of the cases - if not more ;-) Oh, and yes I agree with the other posters that it would be better to store it unescaped, and escape it where you need it. Cheers, --Tim > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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