Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm using xml.sax to parse the "datebook" xml file generated by > QTopiaDesktop. When I look at the xml file, some of the > attribute strings have newlines in them (as they are supposed > to). > > However, when xml.sax passes the attributes to my > startElement() method the newlines seem to have been deleted. > > How do I get the un-munged element attribute values?
newlines as in chr(10) rather than 
 ? if so, the only way is to avoid XML: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize if the "yes, I know, but I have good reasons" approach is okay with you, and you're big enough to defend yourself against the XML-Is-The-Law crowd, you can use a "sloppy" XML parsers such as sgmlop to deal with your files: http://effbot.org/zone/sgmlop-index.htm </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list