XML (XHTML) character entities and PxXml

Tue May 7 12:59:55 EDT 2002

Hi,

I'm processing XML (XHTML) in Python and have hit a major problem -
character entities appear to be silently dropped.  As far as I
understand the DOM docs, they should be translated into appropriate
UTF characters, but instead they seem to simply disappear.  For
example, the code:

PrettyPrint(FromXmlStream(...))

changes
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta name="generator"
content="HTML Tidy for Cygwin (vers 1st April 2002), see www.w3.org"
/>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="basic.css" />
<title>Index</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>¡Hola!</h1>
<a href="init">initialisación</a>
</body>
</html>

to

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<head>
<meta content='HTML Tidy for Cygwin (vers 1st April 2002), see
www.w3.org' name='generator'/>
<link href='basic.css' type='text/css' rel='stylesheet'/>
<title>Index</title>
</head>
<multi:body>
<h1>Hola!</h1>
<a href='init'>initialisacin</a>
</multi:body>
</html>

Where the upside-down exclamation mark before "Hola!" and the accented
"o" in initialisacion have simply disappeared!.

Please help!  I'm working in Spanish, and those characters are very
important!

Thanks,
Andrew