xmlrpclib and decoding entity references

[John Ridley]

Chris Curvey wrote on Tue, 03 May 2005 08:10:50 -0700:

> Can anyone give me a lead on how to convert the entity references
> into something that will make it through to my method call?

The xmllib module has a function for doing this:

>>> import xmllib
>>> xmllib.XMLParser().translate_references(your_xml_sample)

xmllib is now obsolete, but you could copy and paste the relevant parts
to your project as they only amount to a fifty-line function and few
regular expressions.

HTH

John Ridley

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