elementtree and gbk encoding

[Fredrik Lundh]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

>   2) your xml is _not_ well-formed, as it doesn't contain a xml-header!
> You need ask these guys to deliver the xml with header. Of course for
> now it is ok to just prepend the text with something like <?xml
> version="1.0" encoding="gbk"?>. But I'd still request them to deliver it
> with that header - otherwise it is _not_ XML, but just something that
> happens to look similar and doesn't guarantee to be well-formed and thus
> can be safely fed to a parser.

good advice, but note that an envelope (e.g a HTTP request or response
body) may override the encoding in the XML file itself.  if this arrives in a
MIME message with the proper charset information, it's perfectly okay to
leave out the encoding from the file.

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