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Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping

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Il giorno martedì 11 dicembre 2012 20:59:54 UTC+1, MRAB ha scritto:
> > Hello, I have posted the same in XML group but it seems pretty dead there so I will repost here.
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> > I am new to xml processing in python.
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> > I am looking to create XML. Xml is not too difficult so I thought to create it manually using ElementTree.
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> > First I noted that ET.toString does escape <>& but not " and '
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> > Is that normal?
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> " needs to be encoded when it's in an attribute's value:
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>      <tag value="a quote (&quot;)">


OK I understood.
 
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> because it's also being used as a delimiter in that case, but elsewhere
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> it has no special meaning.
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> > Since I have also the need to sign the XML I need the ability to create xml but without xml escaping (unescaped data are signed).
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> XML with the escaping isn't valid XML.
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Of course I know it is not valid without escaping. But I need it only for signing. I will recheck this if really the web service wants the data to be signed as non escaped.
 
Thanks
Nenad

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Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping nenad.cikic@gmail.com - 2012-12-11 09:47 -0800
  Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-11 19:59 +0000
    Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping nenad.cikic@gmail.com - 2012-12-11 18:19 -0800
      Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-12-15 10:31 +0100
    Re: Create xml with elementtree ET and xml escaping nenad.cikic@gmail.com - 2012-12-11 18:19 -0800

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