minidom and åäö once again :-P

[Magnus Heino]

Hi.

I am (still) trying to get minidom and åäö to play together. And I guess 
the main problem really is me ;-)

But why doesnt this work? Shouldnt parseString eat what toxml produce?

/Magnus

[magnus at bombardier magnus]$ python2.2
Python 2.2 (#1, Jan 23 2002, 14:50:45)
[GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>> d=xml.dom.minidom.parseString('<?xml version="1.0" 
encoding="iso-8859-15" ?><test>åäö</test>')
>>> d.toxml()
'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<test>\xe5\xe4\xf6</test>'
>>> d=xml.dom.minidom.parseString(d.toxml())
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 
965, in parseString
    return _doparse(pulldom.parseString, args, kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 
952, in _doparse
    toktype, rootNode = events.getEvent()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/pulldom.py", line 
256, in getEvent
    self.parser.feed(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", line 
143, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal)
UnicodeError: UTF-8 decoding error: invalid data
>>>