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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 =3D 002), which contains a non-standard ascii character, =E4. =
Here's the XML:
>=20
> <?xml version=3D"1.0"?>
> <snapshot time=3D"Mon Apr 25 08:47:23 PDT 2011">
> <records>
> <record id=3D"001" education=3D"High School" employment=3D"7 yrs" />
> <record id=3D"002" education=3D"Universit=E4t Bremen" employment=3D"3 =
years" />
> <record id=3D"003" education=3D"River College" employment=3D"5 yrs" />
> </records>
> </snapshot>
>=20
> The complaint offered up by the parser is
>=20
> 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.=20


bye
Philip