Il giorno martedì 11 dicembre 2012 20:59:54 UTC+1, MRAB ha scritto: > > Hello, I have posted the same in XML group but it seems pretty dead there > > so I will repost here. > > > > > > I am new to xml processing in python. > > > I am looking to create XML. Xml is not too difficult so I thought to create > > it manually using ElementTree. > > > First I noted that ET.toString does escape <>& but not " and ' > > > Is that normal? > > > > > " needs to be encoded when it's in an attribute's value: > > > > <tag value="a quote (")">
OK I understood. > > > because it's also being used as a delimiter in that case, but elsewhere > > it has no special meaning. > > > > > Since I have also the need to sign the XML I need the ability to create xml > > but without xml escaping (unescaped data are signed). > > > > XML with the escaping isn't valid XML. > Of course I know it is not valid without escaping. But I need it only for signing. I will recheck this if really the web service wants the data to be signed as non escaped. Thanks Nenad -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
