Hi, > good advice, but note that an envelope (e.g a HTTP request or response > body) may override the encoding in the XML file itself. if this arrives > in a MIME message with the proper charset information, it's perfectly okay > to leave out the encoding from the file.
It might be practical - still, a xml parser _should_ puke on you, ans certainly some will (elemnttree not being one of those, I know :)) So even if it goes over the wire headerless, you should be prepending it when dealing with teh data later. Regards, Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
