Hey all, I'm simply trying to get my feet wet with XML parsing, and I
tried to just do something simple with ElementTree, just throw the XML
tags from a file into a list. The code is as follows (and may be
wrong):
import glob
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('nameofFilehere').getroot()
list = []
for branch in tree:
this = {}
for child in branch.getchildren():
this[child.tag] = child.text
list.append(this)
Every time I run the program, I get this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "nameofFilehere", line 4, in <module>
coords = ET.parse('nameofFilehere').getroot()
File "C:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line
862, in parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "C:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line
587, in parse
self._root = parser.close()
File "C:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line
1254, in close
self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 3, column 0
What can I do to fix this, if anything? My overall goal has been to
simply get the text of the XML document into a text file, but even that
has failed (I get naught but gibberish), so any help would be
appreciated.
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