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

[John Abel]

Have a look on:

http://xml.com/pub/a/98/10/guide0.html?page=4#WELLFORMED

Explains it better then I can.

J

Gregory Piñero wrote:

> What do you mean by well-formed?  What is required to make XML well 
> formed?
>
> -Greg
>
>
> On 10/26/05, *John Abel* <jabel at plus.net <mailto:jabel at plus.net>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>     > <mailto: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>
>     >
>     >
>     >
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