error when parsing xml

[Albert Leibbrandt]

>> I use xml.dom.minidom to parse some xml, but when input[color=blue][color=green]
>> contains some specific caracters(æ, ø and å), I get an
>> UnicodeEncodeEr ror, like this:
>>
>> UnicodeEncodeEr ror: 'ascii' codec can't encode character
>> u'\xe6' in position 604: ordinal not in range(128).
>>
>> How can I avoid this error?
>>
>>
>> All help much appreciated![/color][/color]

I have found that some people refuse to stick to standards, so whenever I
parse XML files I remove any characters that fall in the range
<= 0x1f[color=blue]
>= 0xf0[/color]

Hope it helps.

Regards
Albert

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: error when parsing xml

> I have found that some people refuse to stick to standards, so whenever I[color=blue]
> parse XML files I remove any characters that fall in the range
> <= 0x1f
>[color=green]
>>= 0xf0[/color][/color]

Now of what help shall that be? Get rid of all accented characters?
Sorry, but that surely is the dumbest thing to do here - and has
_nothing_ to do with standards! Charactersets with codepoints > 128 are
pretty common and well standarized, just not "ascii". I suggset you read
up on the topic of unicode & encodings a bit - and then fix some code of
yours...

Diez

[Richard Brodie]

Re: error when parsing xml

[color=blue][color=green]
> > I have found that some people refuse to stick to standards, so whenever I
> > parse XML files I remove any characters that fall in the range
> > <= 0x1f
> >[color=darkred]
> >>= 0xf0[/color][/color]
>
> Now of what help shall that be? Get rid of all accented characters?
> Sorry, but that surely is the dumbest thing to do here - and has
> _nothing_ to do with standards![/color]

Earlier versions of the Microsoft XML parser accept invalid characters
(e.g. most of those < 0x1f). Sadly, you do find files in the wild that need
to have these stripped before feeding them to a conforming parser.
One can be too enthusiastic about the process, though.