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[Bernhard Trummer]

hi.

I am new in python (and also xml) - and I have (maybe - I hope) a silly
problem:
I use the XML only to read (and parse) an input file (I do not create XML
files!)
My XML file has germen letters like äüö (- thats the problem).
On running the python-script I get a Unicode Error in python!
(with ASCII chars up to 127 it works fine!)

What can I do?

thanx
Bernhard


My XML-file looks like:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding ="ISO-8859-1"?>
<messages version="102">
  <message>
   <TXT>Eisenstadt: Europaplatz, zwischen Bürgerspitalgasse und
Kurzwiesenweg: </TXT>
  </message>
  <message>
    <TXT>A2 Autobahn:</TXT>
  </message>
...
</messages>
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The error message:
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  File "F:\\Scripts\XMLTest2.py", line 54, in handlePoint
    print "<li>%s</li>" % getText(point.childNodes)
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
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The phython code (where it crashes)
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def handlePoint(point):
    print "<li>%s</li>" % unicode(getText(point.childNodes))

def getText(nodelist):
    rc = ""
    for node in nodelist:
        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
            rc = rc + node.data
    return rc
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