I have created an XML file using python. But the XML declaration has only version info. How can I include encoding with XML declaration like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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1how you are generating XML, which lib?Anurag Uniyal– Anurag Uniyal2010-04-08 05:09:35 +00:00Commented Apr 8, 2010 at 5:09
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>>> from xml.dom.minidom import Document
>>> a=Document()
>>> a.toprettyxml(encoding="utf-8")
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n'
or
>>> a.toxml(encoding="utf-8")
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
you can set the encoding for the document.writexml() function in the same way.
3 Comments
Newskooler
How do you actually writexml() and keep the encoding?
retrovius
It should be noted that when you pass
'UTF-8' as the encoding argument, toprettyxml() returns a bytes object. Thus, when you write to a file you must open it with the 'wb' option with open("minidom_example.xml", "wb") as f: \n f.write(xml_str)
KlausCPH
Note that according to the docs,
writexml() did not get the encoding-parameter until Python 3.9. So prior to that you have to use toxml()/toprettyxml() and then write that string to a file afterwards