Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem

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On Apr 27, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Mike wrote:

> I'm using ElementTree to parse an XML file, but it stops at the second record (id = 002), which contains a non-standard ascii character, ä. Here's the XML:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <snapshot time="Mon Apr 25 08:47:23 PDT 2011">
> <records>
> <record id="001" education="High School" employment="7 yrs" />
> <record id="002" education="Universität Bremen" employment="3 years" />
> <record id="003" education="River College" employment="5 yrs" />
> </records>
> </snapshot>
> 
> The complaint offered up by the parser is
> 
> Unexpected error opening simple_fail.xml: not well-formed (invalid token): line 5, column 40

You've gotten a number of good observations & suggestions already. I would add that if you're saving your XML file from a text editor, make sure you're saving it as UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-1 or Win-1252. 


bye
Philip

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ElementTree XML parsing problem Mike <Mike@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 11:26 -0700
  Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-04-27 14:41 -0400
  Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-04-27 19:24 +0000
    Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Mike <Mike@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 13:43 -0700
  Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-04-27 15:32 -0400
  Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Hegedüs Ervin <airween@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 21:33 +0200
    Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Mike <Mike@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 13:32 -0700
  Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-04-28 07:57 +0200
  Re: ElementTree XML parsing problem Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> - 2011-04-28 08:24 +0200

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