Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > 2) your xml is _not_ well-formed, as it doesn't contain a xml-header! > You need ask these guys to deliver the xml with header. Of course for > now it is ok to just prepend the text with something like <?xml > version="1.0" encoding="gbk"?>. But I'd still request them to deliver it > with that header - otherwise it is _not_ XML, but just something that > happens to look similar and doesn't guarantee to be well-formed and thus > can be safely fed to a parser.
good advice, but note that an envelope (e.g a HTTP request or response body) may override the encoding in the XML file itself. if this arrives in a MIME message with the proper charset information, it's perfectly okay to leave out the encoding from the file. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
