What is wrong? The minidom or the XML file?

[Andrew Clover]

Anthony Liu <antonyliu2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The problem remains even if I try encoding="UTF-16" or
> encoding="GB2312" or encoding="GBK" in the xml
> document.

Indeed, expat doesn't understand some of the more complex (DBCS)
encodings such as GB.

In any case, you'll need CJKCodecs to get GB support, if you haven't
installed them already. (They'll be built-in in a forthcoming Python
version.) See http://cjkpython.i18n.org/

Then you'll need to either:

  - read in the file and transcode it before passing to expat
    via minidom.parseString, or,

  - use a pure-Python parser such as xmlproc (a validating parser)
    or the one in pxdom.

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