xml.dom.minidom - parseString - How to avoid ExpatError?

[John Abel]

Try this page:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-xml.sax.saxutils.html

I've just tried the code, taking out the &nbsp, and adding in the belo, 
as the XML is not well formed, otherwise.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15"?>

The code then works.

HTH

J

Gregory Piñero wrote:

> Should I try some sort of XML group instead?  I'm still stuck on this.
>
> -Greg
>
>
> On 10/25/05, *Gregory Piñero* <gregpinero at gmail.com 
> <mailto:gregpinero at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     I was hoping some XML expert could help me make this code work. 
>     Below is sample code with sample XML similar to what I'm dealing with.
>
>     How can I make the weird characters in the XML not break the
>     parser?  I'll do anything to make this work!
>
>     (Note: the   broke my parser yesterday but doesn't seem to in
>     this sample code)  But really I'm looking for solutions that will
>     handles lots
>     of unusual characters.
>
>     Much thanks,
>
>     Greg
>
>
>     <code>
>     from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
>     data="""
>     <blog>
>     <post>
>     This is sample problem text.   £500.00
>     </post>
>     </blog>
>     """
>     myDOM=parseString(data)
>     </code>
>
>     <error>
>     Traceback (most recent call last):
>       File
>     "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
>     line 307, in RunScript
>         debugger.run(codeObject, __main__.__dict__, start_stepping=0)
>       File
>     "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger\__init__.py",
>     line 60, in run
>         _GetCurrentDebugger().run(cmd, globals,locals, start_stepping)
>       File
>     "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\debugger\debugger.py",
>     line 631, in run
>         exec cmd in globals, locals
>       File "C:\Documents and Settings\Gregory\My Documents\Python\xml
>     help\xmlproc.py", line 9, in ?
>         myDOM=parseString(data)
>       File "C:\Python23\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 1929, in parseString
>         return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
>       File "C:\Python23\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 940, in
>     parseString
>         return builder.parseString(string)
>       File "C:\Python23\lib\xml\dom\expatbuilder.py", line 223, in
>     parseString
>         parser.Parse(string, True)
>     ExpatError: undefined entity: line 4, column 29
>     </error>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Gregory Piñero
>     Chief Innovation Officer
>     Blended Technologies
>     (www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>) 
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Gregory Piñero
> Chief Innovation Officer
> Blended Technologies
> (www.blendedtechnologies.com <http://www.blendedtechnologies.com>)