From bb58f051e58dce378d0db4afa336235db5573d17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Albrecht <github.com@undef.net>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 21:57:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added CoT XML Declaration constant

---
 CHANGELOG.md       | 4 ++++
 pytak/__init__.py  | 1 +
 pytak/constants.py | 5 ++++-
 setup.py           | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1350836..25fca18 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+PyTAK 5.4.0
+-----------
+Added CoT XML Declaration constant, should be included with all output XML CoT.
+
 PyTAK 5.3.1
 -----
 Readme cleanup.
diff --git a/pytak/__init__.py b/pytak/__init__.py
index fb26f29..4d474bc 100644
--- a/pytak/__init__.py
+++ b/pytak/__init__.py
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
     DEFAULT_HOST_ID,
     BOOLEAN_TRUTH,
     DEFAULT_MIN_ASYNC_SLEEP,
+    DEFAULT_XML_DECLARATION
 )
 
 from .classes import (  # NOQA
diff --git a/pytak/constants.py b/pytak/constants.py
index bc378b0..4602903 100644
--- a/pytak/constants.py
+++ b/pytak/constants.py
@@ -79,4 +79,7 @@
 # await asyncio.sleep(0) should allow co-routines to yield, but they end up
 # eating 100% CPU. @PeterQFR found bumping this to 0.1 solved the high CPU
 # issue. See: https://github.com/ampledata/pytak/pull/22
-DEFAULT_MIN_ASYNC_SLEEP: float = 0.1
\ No newline at end of file
+DEFAULT_MIN_ASYNC_SLEEP: float = 0.1
+
+# Python <3.8 has no way of including XML Declaration in ET.tostring():
+DEFAULT_XML_DECLARATION: str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>'
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0f5fb43..79b6add 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import setuptools
 
 __title__ = "pytak"
-__version__ = "5.3.1"
+__version__ = "5.4.0"
 __author__ = "Greg Albrecht W2GMD <oss@undef.net>"
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2022 Greg Albrecht"
 __license__ = "Apache License, Version 2.0"