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"?>
<checkbook balance-start="2460.62">
<title>expenses: january 2002</title>
<debit category="clothes">
<amount>31.19</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>3</day></date>
<payto>Walking Store</payto>
<description>shoes</description>
</debit>
<deposit category="salary">
<amount>1549.58</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>7</day></date>
<payor>Bob's Bolts</payor>
</deposit>
<debit category="withdrawal">
<amount>40</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>8</day></date>
<description>pocket money</description>
</debit>
<debit category="savings">
<amount>25</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>8</day></date>
</debit>
<debit category="medical" check="855">
<amount>188.20</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>8</day></date>
<payto>Boston Endodontics</payto>
<description>cavity</description>
</debit>
<debit category="supplies">
<amount>10.58</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>10</day></date>
<payto>Exxon Saugus</payto>
<description>gasoline</description>
</debit>
<debit category="car">
<amount>909.56</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>14</day></date>
<payto>Honda North</payto>
<description>car repairs</description>
</debit>
<debit category="food">
<amount>24.30</amount>
<date><year>2002</year><month>1</month><day>15</day></date>
<payto>Johnny Rockets</payto>
<description>lunch</description>
</debit>
</checkbook>
"""
I thought this was proper XML as it comes straight out from an O'Reilly
XML book.
Cheers
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