elementtree -

[Jesper Olsen]

Hi,

I'm using the XMLWriter from the effbot element tree module:
http://effbot.org/zone/xml-writer.htm

I'd like to output the element "<span>&nbsp;</span>"
and I try this

w=XMLWriter(f)
w.element("span", "&nbsp;", id="txt")

But that does not work because "&nbsp;" gets escaped to "&amp;nbsp;"
- and using " " does not work either because space does not get
escaped...
Is there a way to do this?

Another thing I noticed is when outputting the element

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" />

then is not possible to generate this by passing attributes as
keywords
to the w.element method - so it is necessary to use the slightly less
elegant form

w.element("meta", None, {"http-equiv":"contenttype",
"content":"text/html"})

I guess there is no way to avoid this - since the module relies on
pythons
way of handling keyword parameters...

/Jesper

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jesper Olsen wrote:

I'd like to output the element "<span>&nbsp;</span>"
and I try this

w=XMLWriter(f)
w.element("span", "&nbsp;", id="txt")

But that does not work because "&nbsp;" gets escaped to "&amp;nbsp;"
- and using " " does not work either because space does not get
escaped...
Is there a way to do this?

use chr(160).

("&nbsp;" isn't a standard XML entity, and the simple writer doesn't support
custom entities.)

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