[XML-SIG] Re: Parsing a unicode string

[Fredrik Lundh]

konrad.hinsen at laposte.net wrote:

> I'd also expect parsers to accept unicode string objects with no encoding specification 
> whatsoever. Decoding a Unicode encoding and parsing XML are two distinct steps

not really; XML is defined in terms of encoded bytestreams.

if an entity is stored in a Python Unicode string, it's not really an XML
entity.  it just looks like one.

(it doesn't make much sense from a design perspective either.  if you use
standard XML tools, you get encoded streams.  if you use Python code
to generate it, you might as well generate a DOM or DOM-like structure
in the first place...).

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