Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >> 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. > > It might be practical - still, a xml parser _should_ puke on you, ans > certainly some will (elemnttree not being one of those, I know :))
no, the parser must not to choke on a file for which the encoding has been overridden. for example, the HTTP standard allows the transport layer to recode text/* re- sources as long as it updates the charset properly, so if you e.g send an XML document as text/xml and charset=iso-8859-1, the transport layer can recode that to charset=utf-8, *without* rewriting the XML header. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
