still don't get unicode and xml - help!

[jmdeschamps]

I have to work with XML data containing accented characters (ISO-8859-1
encoding)
Using ElementTree, the only way i found to get the text attribute of a
node was to encode it individually, if you want. It doubles the amount
of time to process :-(
i surely doing this wrong...
What is the good way to do it? I didn't see an obvious way to do it
this time...
Thanks


############## My XML Encoding Program
#! c:/python24/python -u
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
import elementtree.ElementTree as ET
import time

def getMyXML(accentedTest):
filename="pagemembre.xml"
tree = ET.parse(filename)
elem = tree.getroot()
if accentedTest:
for i in elem:
f= i.text.encode("iso-8859-1") #encode pour lire les
accents
else:
for i in elem:
f= i.text
print f

def writeMyXML(myrange,accentedTest):
root = ET.Element("mondoc")
if accentedTest:
for i in range(myrange):
ch=ET.SubElement(root, "monchapitre")
ch.text="bel été et je serai la prêmière de la classe"
else:
for i in range(myrange):
ch=ET.SubElement(root, "monchapitre")
ch.text="bel ete et je serai la premiere de la classe"
tree = ET.ElementTree(root)
tree.write("pageMembre.xml","iso-8859-1")

if __name__ =="__main__":
accentedTest=int(raw_input("set 1 for accented test, 0 for ascii"))
print "First, writing"
t1=time.clock()
writeMyXML(20000,accentedTest)
t2=time.clock()
print "Now, reading"
t3=time.clock()
getMyXML(accentedTest)
t4=time.clock()
print "accents
are",accentedTest,"writing=",str(t2-t1),"reading=",str(t4-t3)
s=raw_input("END XML TEST")
######### End XML Encoding Program