I have a Python 2.7.6 Flask application that is trying to parse a SAML XML document using the lxml library. I'm running into an issue where etree.tostring(...) returns an empty string.
etree_string = etree.tostring(etree.fromstring(b'<test1><test2></test2></test1>'))
return etree_string
# output: ''
This appears to only occur when the code is run within the Flask app, served by mod_wsgi in Apache. I say this because in the same virtualenv, if I open a python interpreter and run:
>>> etree_string = etree.tostring(etree.fromstring(b'<test1><test2></test2></test1>'))
>>> print etree_string
<test1><test2/></test1>
Anyone have an idea on what might be going on?
