Parsing XML with ElementTree (unicode problem?)

[John Machin]

On Jul 26, 9:24 pm, oren.t... at gmail.com wrote:
> OK, I solved the problem but I still don't get what went wrong.
> Solution - use tree builder in order to create the new xml file
> (previously I was  "manually" creating it).
>
> I'm still curious so I'm adding a link to a short and very simple
> script that gets an xml (containing non ascii chars) from the web and
> saves some of the elements to 2 different local xml files - one is
> created by XMLWriter and the other is created manually. you could see
> that parsing of the first local file is OK while parsing of the
> "manually" created xml file fails. obviously I'm doing something wrong
> and I'd love to learn what.
>
> the toy script:http://staff.science.uva.nl/~otsur/code/xmlConversions.py
>

Simple file comparison:

File 1: ... Modern Church.  <p>The book ...
File 2: ... Modern Church.  <p>The book ...

Firefox:

XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </p>.
Location: file:///C:/junk/myDeVinciCode166_2.xml
Line Number 3, Column 1153:

<CONTENT>The...Church.  <p>The...thrill.</CONTENT>
------------------------------------------^