xml.dom.minidom losing the XML document type attribute

[Stefan Behnel]

Johannes Bauer wrote:
> when I read in a XML document with the xml.dom.minidom parser and write
> it out again, an attribute is lost:
> 
> Input:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> [...]
> 
> Output:
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> 
> How can I fix this?

You don't have to. UTF-8 is the default encoding, so the two lines above
are equivalent.

Stefan