Massimo, it works. I will post a link to my web2py app which converts Excel worksheets in xml files as soon as published.
Now I am just curious to look into your changes in html.py..Thanks carlo On 17 Gen, 17:33, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > check trunk, please. I did it but a little differently. > > On Jan 17, 9:39 am, carlo <syseng...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As in my previous post, TAG with its xml serializer fails when both > > tag Name and Contents are unicode strings with non ascii chars. > > > What about this trivial solution in html.py? > > > def xml(self): > > """ > > generates the xml for this component. > > """ > > > (fa, co) = self._xml() > > > if not self.tag: > > return co > > > if self.tag[-1:] == '/': > > # <tag [attributes] /> > > #should encode this as well > > return '<%s%s />' % (self.tag[:-1], fa) > > > # else: <tag [attributes]> inner components xml </tag> > > #explicitly encoding self.tag > > return '<%s%s>%s</%s>' % ((self.tag).encode('utf-8'), fa, co, > > (self.tag).encode('utf-8')) > > > In my test code this is ok but I do not know if it breaks something > > else. > > > Another thing I noticed is that even HTML attributes like > > u'some_non_ascii_chars' breaks _validate()..but this is a story much > > more complex than the TAG problem. > >