On Apr 27, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Mike wrote: > I'm using ElementTree to parse an XML file, but it stops at the second record > (id = 002), which contains a non-standard ascii character, ä. Here's the XML: > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > <snapshot time="Mon Apr 25 08:47:23 PDT 2011"> > <records> > <record id="001" education="High School" employment="7 yrs" /> > <record id="002" education="Universität Bremen" employment="3 years" /> > <record id="003" education="River College" employment="5 yrs" /> > </records> > </snapshot> > > The complaint offered up by the parser is > > Unexpected error opening simple_fail.xml: not well-formed (invalid token): > line 5, column 40
You've gotten a number of good observations & suggestions already. I would add that if you're saving your XML file from a text editor, make sure you're saving it as UTF-8 and not ISO-8859-1 or Win-1252. bye Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
