What is wrong? The minidom or the XML file?

[Anthony Liu]

I copy-pasted the following sample xml document from
http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~xml/sample.html and saved
it as samplexml.xml. Please note that I removed the
following line

<!DOCTYPE DOCUMENT SYSTEM "simple.dtd ">

from the original xml sample.

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DOCUMENT trackNum="1234" >
<TITLE> Sample Document </TITLE>
<AUTHOR> <FIRSTNAME> Brandon </FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME> Voss </LASTNAME>
<COMPANY> The XML Pages </COMPANY> </AUTHOR>
<SUMMARY> This is element text and an entity
follows:&Descri ption;
</SUMMARY>
</DOCUMENT>

Then, I attempted to parse this xml document with the
following python code, which is saved as xmltest.py.

from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' sample.xml')
print xmldoc.toxml()

I got the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python23\co des\xmltest.py" , line 4, in
-toplevel-
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' samplexml.xml')
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\minid om.py", line
1919, in parse
return expatbuilder.pa rse(file)
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
924, in parse
result = builder.parseFi le(fp)
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(bu ffer, 0)
ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
column 5

I have no clue why that xml document is not
well-formed.

Any hint please?
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[Erik Max Francis]

Anthony Liu wrote:

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ^
... ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
column 5

Line 1 column 5 is the L in <?XML. That XML document type declaration
is invalid; the "XML" needs to be in lowercase.

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[Peter Abel]

Anthony Liu <an***********@ yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<ma******* *************** *************** *@python.org>.. .

I copy-pasted the following sample xml document from
http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~xml/sample.html and saved
it as samplexml.xml. Please note that I removed the
following line

<!DOCTYPE DOCUMENT SYSTEM "simple.dtd ">

from the original xml sample.

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DOCUMENT trackNum="1234" >
<TITLE> Sample Document </TITLE>
<AUTHOR> <FIRSTNAME> Brandon </FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME> Voss </LASTNAME>
<COMPANY> The XML Pages </COMPANY> </AUTHOR>
<SUMMARY> This is element text and an entity
follows:&Descri ption;
</SUMMARY>
</DOCUMENT>

Then, I attempted to parse this xml document with the
following python code, which is saved as xmltest.py.

from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' sample.xml')
print xmldoc.toxml()

I got the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python23\co des\xmltest.py" , line 4, in
-toplevel-
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' samplexml.xml')
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\minid om.py", line
1919, in parse
return expatbuilder.pa rse(file)
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
924, in parse
result = builder.parseFi le(fp)
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(bu ffer, 0)
ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
column 5

I have no clue why that xml document is not
well-formed.

Any hint please?
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One additional possibility to get another quick help about errors
in the xml-document is - when working under MS-Windows - to open
the document with the Internet Explorer up from version 5.xx
or so.
In your case it tells me exactly what Erik Max Francis told you.

Regards
Peter