[XML-SIG] UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)

[David Gaya]

Hi,
I'm quite new in python but I see it has good support for XML. I'm trying to 
modify an XML file using DOM. My script is the following:

from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse('slide.xml')
bitmaplist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('Bitmap')
for bitmap in bitmaplist:
     cdata = bitmap.firstChild
     bitmap.removeChild(cdata)
print xmldoc.toxml()

I got the following error:
UnicodeError: ASCII encoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
This is because xml file contains some strings like:
<StyleBox>
   <String>&#63482;</String>
</StyleBox>

Instead of 'print xmldoc.toxml()' I've tryed 
   s = xmldoc.toxml()
   print s.encode('UTF-8')
But then &#63482; is encoded in a single character.
Does anybody know how can I print (or save) back the modified document 
keeping the &#63482; format ?

Thanks very much
David