[Zope] removing newline character from returned python string

[Jon Erickson]

I have a python script that transforms the results of a zsql method into
xml.  The script builds the xml in a python string and returns that
string as the scripts output.  The problem I have is that the string
contains a newline character (\n) which corrupts the xml.  I made sure
to strip the string before it's returned...

XML = XML.strip()
return XML

... but the output always contains the newline character.  Does anyone
have suggestions on how I could fix this? 

Thanks,

Jon