[mod_python] Mod_python xml parsing problem

Hi, I am currently using Python 2.2.3, apache 1.3.27 and mod_python 2.7.8. 
Under Solaris 8 on a sun.
The configuration appears to be working fine but, the problem that i am 
having is in parsing xml files, when i do for example:

xmlfile = minidom.parse(file)
root = xmlfile.childNodes

It creates a dom instance but it contains nothing at all, and root returns 
a 'nonetype'. I believe that it may be an encoding problem but i dont know 
how to fix it.
When i tried the same code using cgi instead of mod_python it worked fine.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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