Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment: The documentation is incorrect; writexml does not support an encoding parameter. Only Document nodes support the encoding parameter in writexml, and it is intentional that its only effect is to fill out the XML declaration. I don't understand the last sentence in your report: what is it that you want to see supported, and how is that related to this issue? ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation nosy: +docs@python, loewis _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10781> _______________________________________