Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: >> Diez B. Roggisch wrote: >>> Ricardo Aráoz schrieb: >>>> Thanks Ivan, it seems a elegant API, and easy to use. >>>> I tried to play a little with it but unfortunately could not get it off >>>> the ground. I kept getting >>>>>>> root = et.fromstring(doc) >>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>> File "<input>", line 1, in <module> >>>> File "E:\Python25\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 963, in XML >>>> parser.feed(text) >>>> File "E:\Python25\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1245, in feed >>>> self._parser.Parse(data, 0) >>>> ExpatError: XML or text declaration not at start of entity: line 2, column >>>> 0 >>> That's a problem in your XML not being XML. Has nothing to do with >>> element-tree - as one sees from the error-message "ExpatError". If you >>> show it to us, we might see why. >>> >> Sure, >> >> doc = """ >> <?xml version="1.0"?> > > It's not allowed to have a newline before the <?xml ...> > > Put it on the line above, and things will work. > If you don't think that looks pretty enough just escape the first newline in the string constant to have the parser ignore it:
doc = """\ <?xml version="1.0"?> regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
