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Hello pycsw-team!</div>
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I just set up pycsw locally, inserted some xmls and tried to retrieve them again (using getRecordById) and I got an error when requesting
<a href="http://isotoc211.org/2005/gmd" id="LPlnk410263">http://isotoc211.org/2005/gmd</a> as outputSchema.</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">In more detail I get the following error:
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;"> File "some/path/to/pycsw/pycsw/plugins/profiles/apiso/apiso.py", line 389, in write_record</span><span><br>
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<div><span style="font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;"> if caps is None and xml_blob is not None and xml_blob.startswith(b'<gmd:MD_Metadata'):</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;">TypeError: startswith first arg must be str or a tuple of str, not bytes</span><br>
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It seems that my <i>xml_blob </i>is of type string not bytes. I tried to understand where the object is coming from, and for what I see it's the unchanged
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content of the <i>xml </i>database column. I inserted xmls in iso format (see attachment) so I assume they are stored as they are in this database column.
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Coming back to the types, the <i>xml</i> column is of type text, so it makes sense that
<i>xml_blob </i>is of type string. Following this idea I tried to use <br>
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'<gmd:MD_Metadata' instead of b'<gmd:MD_Metadata'. This works for me, so I get the expected xml.</div>
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Do you understand why this is happening for me? <br>
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Maybe also important: I'm using postgresql with postgis extension as a database.<br>
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Thanks a lot for any help!</div>
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Best,<br>
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Sophie<br>
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