On Apr 1, 12:42 pm, Alok Kothari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am new to XML parsing.Could you kindly tell me whats the
> problem with the following code:
>
> import xml.dom.minidom
> import xml.parsers.expat
> document = """<token pos="nn">Letterman</token><token pos="bez">is</
> token><token pos="jjr">better</token><token pos="cs">than</
> token><token pos="np">Jay</token><token pos="np">Leno</token>"""
>
> # 3 handler functions
> def start_element(name, attrs):
> print 'Start element:', name, attrs
> def end_element(name):
> print 'End element:', name
> def char_data(data):
> print 'Character data:', repr(data)
>
> p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()
>
> p.StartElementHandler = start_element
> p.EndElementHandler = end_element
> p.CharacterDataHandler = char_data
> p.Parse(document, 1)
>
> OUTPUT:
>
> Start element: token {u'pos': u'nn'}
> Character data: u'Letterman'
> End element: token
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:/Python25/Programs/eg.py", line 20, in <module>
> p.Parse(document, 1)
> ExpatError: junk after document element: line 1, column 33
Your XML is wrong. Don't put line breaks between </ and token>.
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