What is wrong? The minidom or the XML file?

[Peter Abel]

Anthony Liu <antonyliu2002 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.213.1078910068.19534.python-list at python.org>...
> I copy-pasted the following sample xml document from
> http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~xml/sample.html and saved
> it as samplexml.xml.  Please note that I removed the
> following line
> 
> <!DOCTYPE DOCUMENT SYSTEM "simple.dtd">
> 
> from the original xml sample.
> 
> <?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <DOCUMENT trackNum="1234">
> <TITLE> Sample Document </TITLE>
> <AUTHOR> <FIRSTNAME> Brandon </FIRSTNAME>
> <LASTNAME> Voss </LASTNAME>
> <COMPANY> The XML Pages </COMPANY> </AUTHOR>
> <SUMMARY> This is element text and an entity
> follows:&Description;
> </SUMMARY>
> </DOCUMENT>
> 
> Then, I attempted to parse this xml document with the
> following python code, which is saved as xmltest.py.
> 
> from xml.dom import minidom
> xmldoc = minidom.parse('sample.xml')
> print xmldoc.toxml()
> 
> I got the following error message:
> 
> >>> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python23\codes\xmltest.py", line 4, in
> -toplevel-
>     xmldoc = minidom.parse('samplexml.xml')
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line
> 1919, in parse
>     return expatbuilder.parse(file)
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line
> 924, in parse
>     result = builder.parseFile(fp)
>   File "C:\Python23\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line
> 207, in parseFile
>     parser.Parse(buffer, 0)
> ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
> column 5
> >>> 
> 
> I have no clue why that xml document is not
> well-formed.
> 
> Any hint please?
> 
> 
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One additional possibility to get another quick help about errors
in the xml-document is -  when working under MS-Windows - to  open
the document with the Internet Explorer up from version 5.xx
or so.
In your case it tells me exactly what Erik Max Francis told you.

Regards
Peter