On 2005-09-29, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 
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Yup, Looks that way. > if so, the only way is to avoid XML: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#AVNormalize I can't quite find it in the BNF, but I take it that chr(10) isn't really allowed in XML attribute strings. IOW, the file generate by Trolltech's app is broken. > if the "yes, I know, but I have good reasons" approach is okay > with you, I didn't define the file or write the program that generated it. It's claimed to be "xml", and I'm just trying to parse it. > 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 Good to know for future reference. For now, I think I'll just live with the way it works. Everything basically works, except some strings don't display quite "right". My current app treats the file as read-only. If I ever get around to modifying data and writing it back, I'll probably have to deal with the newline issue at that point. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! When this load is at DONE I think I'll wash visi.com it AGAIN... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
