[BioPython] BLAST XML problem?

[Sebastian Bassi]

On 1/11/06, Peter <biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> Instead its just:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> Short term solutions which I have just tried and got to work:
> (1) Edit the offending character by hand (as you did)
> (2) Specify encoding="ISO-8859-1" by editing the first line by hand
> (2) Covert the file to unicode (doubles the size)

I have a 4th solution, that doesn't involve XML editing, so it will
"fix" the problem for other users:
4) Change Biopython or XML parser to assume encoding = ISO-8859-1 when
there is no encoding information.
I wonder if <?xml version="1.0"?> is a W3C valid first line for a XML
file. If this is OK (from the point of view of the XML standard), then
the parser should be corrected, if not, according to the standard, the
file should be rejected for non compliance (this is not HTML where the
browser client can accept and correct invalid code, the specifications
states that XML should validate before being used).

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