xml data or other?

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Hello,

I want to process XML-like data like this:

<testname=ltpacpi.sh>
	<description>
		ACPI (Advanced Control Power & Integration) testscript for 2.5 kernels.

	<\description>
	<test_location>
		ltp/testcases/kernel/device-drivers/acpi/ltpacpi.sh
	<\test_location>
<\testname>


After manually editing the data above, the python module 
xml.etree.ElementTree parses it without failing due to error in the data 
structure.

Edits were substituting '/' for '\' on the end tags, and adding the 
following structure:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
   <testname name=ltpacpi.sh>
     ...
   <\testname>
</data>


Is there a name for the format above (perhaps xhtml)?
I'd like to find a python module that can translate it to proper xml. 
Does one exist? etree?

Many thanks!
az

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xml data or other? Artie Ziff <artie.ziff@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 04:54 -0800
  Re: xml data or other? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-09 05:50 -0800
    Re: xml data or other? Artie Ziff <artie.ziff@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 05:32 -0800
      Re: xml data or other? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 07:54 -0800
        Re: xml data or other? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 07:58 -0800
    RE: xml data or other? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-19 21:42 +0000
    Re: xml data or other? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-11-20 06:48 +0100
  Re: xml data or other? shivers.paul@yahoo.co.uk - 2012-11-13 06:05 -0800
  Re: xml data or other? shivers.paul@yahoo.co.uk - 2012-11-13 06:05 -0800

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