Hi Fredrick Thanks for the reply. But since I don't have control of the initial text, is there something with python that will strip/replace this...
or are you saying I should do a search/replace on the "&" char with the "amp&;" prior to parsing?? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fredrik Lundh Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 1:10 PM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: parsing "&A" in a string.. bruce wrote: > a pretty simple question, i'm guessing. > > i have a text/html string that looks like: > ....(A&E) > > the issue i have is that when i parse it using xpath/node/toString, > i get the following > > ...(A&E;). that's because your parser is interpreting the &E part as an entity reference, and the serializer is then adding the missing semicolon. bare ampersands must be written as "&" in the file. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
