[XML-SIG] Re: tabs inside attribute values removed

[Jeremy Kloth]

> i am having to pre-process all text, substituting
> 	 for "\t" as a work-around for this problem.
> 
> if this is not performed, then all tabs inside
> attribute's values, e.g.
> <node attr="value\tsep\tby\ttabs"/>, are turned into
> spaces.

Using PyXML 0.6.4, I didn't see this behavior.

from xml.dom.ext.reader import Sax2
doc = Sax2.FromXml('<element attr="a&#x09;tab"/>')
attr = doc.documentElement.attributes.item(0)
print repr(attr.value)
'a\011tab'


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