[reportlab-users] Paragraph text with &

[Juha Tuomala]

On Saturday 03 February 2007 14:15, Juha Ruotsalainen wrote:

> Juha Tuomala's hint to use "text = text.replace( '&', '&')" didn't

> work. I guess it has something to do with Python's XML parser (that's

> what Paragraph uses).

> 

> See, my paragraph's contents are read from a XML file, where I have a

> text "<subject>Jack, Jim &amp; Jill</subject>". After parsing the

> input XML via xml.dom.minidom, "&amp;" has been converted to "&".


Well, that you didn't mention.

If your own xml parser rips the &amp; to plain &, you need to 
convert it back to &amp; mode until feeding it to Paragraph's 
own xml parser.


Tuju

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