2008/3/16, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > xmlrpclib.dumps((None,), allow_none=True) yields > > '<params>\n<param>\n<value><nil/></value></param>\n</params>\n' > > Why doesn't it just yield > > '<params>\n<param>\n<value/></param>\n</params>\n' > > Or even just > > '<params>\n<param/>\n</params>\n' > > Those are valid XML and valid XML-RPC, but <nil/> isn't. > > Thanks for any thoughts... > > > -- > martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ > > a farmer is a man outstanding in his field. > > spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No real idea, but to me it seems like a decent way to be double-sure that you actually got the complete and correct dump-file... otherwise, you might be just missing part of it... maybe there's a real reason though?
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