SAX-Parser entity

[fabi.kreutz at gmx.de]

Hi,

I spend the last 3 hours browsing FAQs and Mailinglist - without success -
but have nevertheless the feeling, that this is a very easy question:

I try to use the minidom XML-Parser to parse my little file in order to
generate HTML Code.
Being german, I really like to use Umlauts but minidom does not.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 908, in parse
    return _doparse(pulldom.parse, args, kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/minidom.py", line 900, in _doparse
    toktype, rootNode = events.getEvent()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/dom/pulldom.py", line 251, in getEvent
    self.parser.feed(buf)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/expatreader.py", line 92, in feed
    self._err_handler.fatalError(exc)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/handler.py", line 38, in fatalError
    raise exception
xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: <unknown>:29:19: not well-formed

where Character 19 in Row 29 is the occurence of an ü.

After browsing the FAQs I changed the default encoding in site.py to
iso-8859-1, which had some nice effect, but not on minidom.
Some more browsing let me tell pulldom to use StringIO instead of cStringIO,
still no success.

Since I want to use the text in HTML it would be enough, if I could use
the ü instead, but parse gives me in this case
...
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/handler.py", line 38, in fatalError
    raise exception
xml.sax._exceptions.SAXParseException: <unknown>:29:19: undefined entity

where 29:19 is the &.
I tried to protected it with an \ or / but still no success.

Can anybody help me with this?

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