Unicode strings -> xml.dom.minidom Text elements?

[Patrick Surry]

I've got a unicode string like:

a = u'ABC\u03A3DEF'

and am stuffing it into an xml.dom.minidom Text() element.  But when I
serialize the document with doc.writexml(), it turns into:

<text>ABC?DEF</text>

rather than:

<text>ABC&#x3A3;DEF</text>

as I was hoping.

This seems to be because writexml() effectively does 

writer.write('%s' % a)

making the unicode character turn into a '?'

Am I doing something dumb and/or is there a workaround I could use other than
writing my own XML unicode character escaper...

Cheers,
Patrick


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