[XML-SIG] preserving doctype declaration with xml.dom?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Martin v. Loewis writes:
 > That is not surprising; none of the DOM implementations preserves this
 > information. If you need the functionality, you are encouraged to
 > research this issue, and propose fixes; please expect this to be very
 > difficult.

Just a late followup now that PyXML 0.8.1 is out:  Using PyXML 0.8.1
and the minidom, you should be able to get a meaningful XML and
DOCTYPE declarations back out if you use the parse() or parseString()
functions from the xml.dom.minidom or xml.dom.expatbuilder modules, or
the DOM Level 3 (draft) Load/Save interfaces on the DOMImplementation
object returned by xml.dom.minidom.getDOMImplementation().


  -Fred

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