Frank Millman wrote: >> As you have to keep the "<", why bother? > > If you mean why don't I convert the '<' to '<', the answer is that I do > - I just omitted to say so. However, explicit is better than implicit :-)
Doesn't that make the XML document invalid or changes it in an irreversible way? How would you know whether "<foo><bar/></foo>" started out as "<foo><bar/></foo>" or "<foo><bar/></foo>" ? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
