[Tutor] module to parse XMLish text?

[Wayne Werner]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Karim wrote:
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>  from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
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> I don't think straight XML parsing will work on this, as it's not valid
> XML; it just looks XML-like enough to cause confusion.
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It's worth trying out - most (good) parsers "do the right thing" even when
they don't have strictly valid code. I don't know if xml.etree is one, but
I'm fairly sure both lxml and BeautifulSoup would probably parse it
correctly. Only one way to find out ;)

-Wayne
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