[Zope] Swedish characters and XMLDocument-1.0a4

Johan Carlsson johanc@torped.se
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 14:08:36 +0100


FYI.
As far as I have had time to test this,
it seems to comedown to the pyexpat-parser.

Tests with the pyexpattest.py scripts on
the document breaks in exactly the sameway
as reported by Magnus Heino.

Best regards,
Johan Carlsson



> Hi.
>
> I just read Amos great article at
> http://www.xml.com/pub/1999/12/zope/index.html
>
> I downloaded Sample.zexp and XMLDocument-1.0a4.tgz, and started to
> create some sample pages of my own.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, because I don't know much xml, but
> XMLDocument-1.0a4.tgz seems to have problems handling the swedish
> characters åäö.
>
> This document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <faq>
>   <entry>
>     <test>Långt svårt öppningshål</test>
>    </entry>
> </faq>
>
> displays this error :
>
> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed at line 4
>
> when I try to save it in Zope.
>
> Change the text to "Långt svårt oppningshål" and it says:
>
> XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag at line 5
>
> "Långt svårt oppningshal" saves just ok...
>
> /Magnus Heino
>
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