[Lxml-checkins] r50291 - in lxml/trunk: . doc

[scoder at codespeak.net]

Author: scoder
Date: Thu Jan  3 18:22:38 2008
New Revision: 50291

Modified:
   lxml/trunk/   (props changed)
   lxml/trunk/doc/FAQ.txt
Log:
 r3203 at delle:  sbehnel | 2008-01-03 18:22:27 +0100
 FAQ update


Modified: lxml/trunk/doc/FAQ.txt
==============================================================================
--- lxml/trunk/doc/FAQ.txt	(original)
+++ lxml/trunk/doc/FAQ.txt	Thu Jan  3 18:22:38 2008
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
      6.2  Why can't lxml parse my XML from unicode strings?
      6.3  What is the difference between str(xslt(doc)) and xslt(doc).write() ?
      6.4  Why can't I just delete parents or clear the root node in iterparse()?
+     6.5  How do I output null bytes in XML text?
    7  XPath and Document Traversal
      7.1  What are the ``findall()`` and ``xpath()`` methods on Element(Tree)?
      7.2  Why doesn't ``findall()`` support full XPath expressions?
@@ -608,6 +609,15 @@
 .. _`iterparse section`: api.html#iterparse-and-iterwalk
 
 
+How do I output null bytes in XML text?
+---------------------------------------
+
+Don't.  What you would produce is not well-formed XML.  XML parsers
+will refuse to parse a document that contains null bytes.  The right
+way to embed binary data in XML is using a text encoding such as
+uuencode or base64.
+
+
 XPath and Document Traversal
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