xml.dom.minidom losing the XML document type attribute

[Johannes Bauer]

Stefan Behnel schrieb:

>> Can I somehow force Python to generate it anyways?
> 
> Did you try passing encoding='UTF-8' on serialisation?

Uhm... nope - how can I do that?

> 
>> I have software which
>> complains if an explicit encoding is missing...
> 
> Well, to parse XML, it's best to use an XML parser. ;)

Well, I'm not speaking about my software :-) Actually it's Gnucash which
complains if the tag is not explicitly set. This is because they
appearently had a ancient version which did not specify the charset, but
used a different one than UTF-8. Kind of annoying, but fixing my XML
output seems to be easier than convincing the Gnucash people to change
their software :-)

Kind regards,
Johannes

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