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Asked: 2026-05-12T06:54:14+00:00

In my application I am using the 4Suite.org XSLT library to perform transformations of

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In my application I am using the 4Suite.org XSLT library to perform transformations of source XML. The syntax is like this:

from Ft.Xml.Xslt import Transform
transformed_xml = Transform(raw_xml, stylesheet)

where raw_xml and stylesheet have been defined elsewhere in my application. raw_xml will be the xml resulting from reading a filehandle opened with the codecs module so the raw_xml will be unicode.

The problem is that the Transform() function requires the value of the source xml (raw_xml in my example) to be ascii. It says so in the pydoc and my own program fails with an error along those lines if I try to transform unicode.

Is there a different approach or is there another python library which can perform an XSLT transformation against a unicode source? Or, am I misunderstanding something about XSLT transformations?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure Transform actually needs ascii — looks to me like it should support any encoded Python str. What happens if you call Transform(raw_xml.encode('utf8'), stylesheet) (and then decode the resulting utf8-encoded string back to Unicode when you’re done processing it of course, if you need Unicode) — doesn’t that work?

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