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

[Sidnei da Silva]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:33:17AM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
| 
| 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.

The difference is that this doesnt set the 'encoding' attribute of the
xml element. I suppose I should set it by hand.

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