[XML-SIG] xml.dom.minidom unwanted escaping

[Kai Hendry]

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I have a little code sample attached.

I do not want:
$ ./domtest.py
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<test>
        <keywords>
                foo &amp; bar
        </keywords>
        <title>
                &quot;work&quot;
        </title>
</test>

I want: 
$ ./domtest.py
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<test>
        <keywords>
                foo &amp; bar
        </keywords>
        <title>
                "work"
        </title>
</test>

Any ideas folks?

The joys of XML. :)

Kind regards,
-Kai Hendry

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#!/usr/bin/env python2
import re
import xml.dom.minidom
import os
import string

def create(dict, file_object):
	newdoc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
	testdoc = newdoc.createElement("test") 

	newdoc.appendChild(testdoc) 

	for key, value in dict.items():
		key = newdoc.createElement("%s" % string.lower(key)) 
		key.appendChild(newdoc.createTextNode(value))
		testdoc.appendChild(key)

	newdoc.writexml(file_object)
	return newdoc.toprettyxml()


if __name__ == "__main__":
	
	dict = {'title': '"work"', 'keywords': 'foo & bar'}

	os.umask(022)
	file = open('/tmp/test.xml', 'w')
	
	print create(dict, file)
	
	file.flush()
	file.close()



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