Closer to working catalog creation.

2014-06-01 20:45:41 +01:00
parent 1ab162d4d6
commit 4abdf82598
2 changed files with 44 additions and 17 deletions
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class Node(object):
        root = self._createXMLElement('PropertyList')
        
        t = ET.ElementTree(root)
-        t.write(path, 'UTF-8')
+        t.write(path, 'utf-8')
        
    def _createXMLElement(self, nm = None):
        if nm is None:
@@ -109,15 +109,24 @@ class Node(object):
        n = ET.Element(nm)
        
        # value and type specification 
-        if self._value is not None:
-            n.text = str(self._value)
-            if isinstance(self._value, int):
-                n.set('type', 'int')
-            elif isinstance(self._value, float):
-                n.set('type', 'double')
-            elif isinstance(self._value, bool):
-                n.set('type', "bool")
-        
+        try:
+            if self._value is not None:
+                if isinstance(self._value, basestring):
+                    # don't call str() on strings, breaks the
+                    # encoding
+                    n.text = self._value
+                else:
+                    # use str() to turn non-string types into text
+                    n.text = str(self._value)
+                    if isinstance(self._value, int):
+                        n.set('type', 'int')
+                    elif isinstance(self._value, float):
+                        n.set('type', 'double')
+                    elif isinstance(self._value, bool):
+                        n.set('type', "bool")
+        except UnicodeEncodeError:
+            print "Encoding error with", self._value, type(self._value)
+            
        # index in parent
        if (self.index != 0):
            n.set('n', self.index)