Does python's minidom support Chinese?

[Anthony Liu]

The following 4 lines of code parses an XML document
very well if the XML document contains only English
words.

But when I insert one Chinese character into the XML
document, then Python starts to complain when it hits
the Chinese character, saying that it is an invalid
token and thus it is not well-formed.

This is the complaint of Python:

ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 3,
column 7

line 3 and column 7 exactly pinpoints the 1st Chinese
character in the XML document.

The problem remains even if I try encoding="UTF-16" or
encoding="GB231 2" or encoding="GBK" in the xml
document.

Note that GB2312 and GBK are Chinese encodings.

Please give a hint. Thanks a lot!

The 4 lines of code I used is here:

# -*- coding: cp936 -*-
from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' test.xml')
print xmldoc.toxml()



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[Uche Ogbuji]

Re: Does python's minidom support Chinese?

Anthony Liu <antonyliu2002@ yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.2 50.1078955721.1 9534.python-list@python.org >...[color=blue]
> The following 4 lines of code parses an XML document
> very well if the XML document contains only English
> words.
>
> But when I insert one Chinese character into the XML
> document, then Python starts to complain when it hits
> the Chinese character, saying that it is an invalid
> token and thus it is not well-formed.
>
> This is the complaint of Python:
>
> ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 3,
> column 7
>
> line 3 and column 7 exactly pinpoints the 1st Chinese
> character in the XML document.[/color]

This is an XML problem on your end, not a minidom problem. That error
probably means that you are either omitting the XML declaration (and
thus defaulting to UTF-8 or UTF-16) or declaring a bogus encoding.

[color=blue]
> The problem remains even if I try encoding="UTF-16" or
> encoding="GB231 2" or encoding="GBK" in the xml
> document.[/color]

Well, you can't just go shopping about for oare it accordingly.

Back to minidom: even after you fix your XML problems you may still
have trouble with minidom because the expat reader has to understand
the encoding you're using. I think that it may use the Python codecs
model to find the encoding you declared, so you may just need to
install a Python Chinese codecs package, and you'll be all set. I'm
not entirely sure this si the case, though.


--Uche

http://uche.ogbuji.net