[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are two problems: the //<![CDATA[ has disappeared and the <, > > and && have been replaced by their equivalent entities (CDATA should > have prevented that). > I am no XML/HMTL expert, so i might be doing something wrong...
you're confusing the external representation of something with the internal data model. consider this: >>> "hello" >>> 'hello' >>> "hell\x6f" >>> "hell\157" >>> "hell" + "o" >>> 'h' 'e' 'l' 'l' 'o' the above are six ways to write the same string literal in Python. all these result in a five-character string containing the letters "h", "e", "l", "l", and "o". if you type the above at a python prompt, you'll find that Python echoes the strings back as 'hello' in all six cases. in XML, entities, character references, and CDATA sections are three different way to represent reserved characters. once you've loaded the file, they all "dis- appear". </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list