[Zope3-dev] Re: Zope 3 DAV tests on Win32...

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

I wrote:
 > xml.dom.minidom is available in both PyXML and Python 2.2, but the
 > PyXML version has advanced to include output encoding control (the
 > 'utf-8' parameter used here).

Ok, I've taken a look at this, and here's my recommended solution:

- continue to serialize the XML document using toxml(), but don't pass
  an encoding; this will cause it to return a Unicode string
- encode the resulting string to UTF-8

So the conversion should look like this:

       body = response.toxml().encode('utf-8')

This will be more flexible in the version requirements and be slightly
more efficient computationally.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation