Kent Johnson wrote: [...]
This is an XML document containing a single tag, <string>, whose content is text containing entity-escaped XML.
This is *not* an XML document containing tags <DataSet>, <Order>, <Customer>, etc.
All the behaviour you are seeing is a consequence of this. You need to unescape the contents of the <string> tag to be able to treat it as structured XML.
The unescaping is usually done for you by the xml parser that you use.
--Irmen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
