Problem with minidom and special chars in HTML

Jarek Zgoda jzgoda at gazeta.usun.pl
Wed Feb 23 15:06:52 EST 2005


Horst Gutmann napisał(a):

>> Don't use minidom or convert HTML4 to XHTML and change declaration of 
>> doctype.
>>
> This was just a bad example :-) I get the same problem with XHTML in the 
> doctype. The funny thing here IMO is, that the special chars are simply 
> removed. No warning, no nothing :-(

As Fredrik pointed out, it's minidom that cann't fetch DTD from remote 
location. Download this DTD file to your local machine (it lies at 
exactly this URI), try changing PUBLIC identifier to SYSTEM and give 
local path to this file.

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