On 2012-12-11 17:47, nenad.ci...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I have posted the same in XML group but it seems pretty dead there so I
will repost here.
I am new to xml processing in python.
I am looking to create XML. Xml is not too difficult so I thought to create it
manually using ElementTree.
First I noted that ET.toString does escape <>& but not " and '
Is that normal?
" needs to be encoded when it's in an attribute's value:
<tag value="a quote (")">
because it's also being used as a delimiter in that case, but elsewhere
it has no special meaning.
Since I have also the need to sign the XML I need the ability to create xml but
without xml escaping (unescaped data are signed).
XML with the escaping isn't valid XML.
If i do ET.toString(root,'utf8',text') i do not get the xml tags and if I do
ET.toString(root,'utf8') I get escaped chars.
For example:
a=ET.Element('a')
b=ET.SubElement(a,'b')
b.text=u"šđ<>&"
ET.tostring(a,'utf8')
outputs to
"<?xml version='1.0'
encoding='utf8'?>\n<a><b>\xc5\xa1\xc4\x91<>&</b></a>"
ET.tostring(a,'utf8',method='text')
outputs to
"\xc5\xa1\xc4\x91<>&"
and I need before singing
<a><b>\xc5\xa1\xc4\x91<>&</b></a>
and after signing
<a><b>\xc5\xa1\xc4\x91<>&</b></a>
Is there some way other than string replace?
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