Hello, I use Elementtree to parse an elementary SVG file (in fact, it is one of the examples in the "SVG essentials" book). More precisely, it is the fig0201.svg file in the second chapter. The contents of the file are as follows (i hope it will be rendered correctly): <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"> <svg width="200" height="200"> <title>Default User Coordinates</title> <desc>Shows a rectangle on a grid in default user coordinates</desc> <image xlink:href="default_ruler.svg" x="0" y="0" width="200" height="200"/> <g transform="translate(40,40)"> <rect x="10" y="10" width="50" height="30"style="stroke: black; fill: none;"/> </g> </svg>
The parsing fails in the following way: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\privatedata\myapp.py", line 60, in ? root = ElementTree(file=infile).getroot() File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 554, in __init__ self.parse(file) File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 594, in parse parser.feed(data) File "c:\python23\lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 1171, in feed self._parser.Parse(data, 0) xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: unbound prefix: line 6, column 1 The problem seems to lie with the xlink:href tag. If i remove the xlink namespace, it then does not produce a traceback. Thank you for helping Alain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list