Hi,
I have to parse some text which pretends to be XML. lxml does not want
to parse it, because it lacks a root element.
I think that this situation is not unusual, so: is there a way to
force lxml to parse it ?
My work around is wrapping the text with "<root>...</root>" before
feeding lxmls parser.
Greetings, Uwe 3 1345
On Sep 26, 11:19*am, Uwe Schmitt <rocksportroc.. .@googlemail.co m>
wrote:
I have to parse some text which pretends to be XML. lxml does not want
to parse it, because it lacks a root element.
I think that this situation is not unusual, so: is there a way to
force lxml to parse it ?
By "pretends to be XML" you mean XML-like but not really XML?
My work around is wrapping the text with "<root>...</root>" before
feeding lxmls parser.
That's actually not a bad solution, if you know that the document is
otherwise well-formed. Another thing you can do is use libxml2's
"recover" mode which accommodates non-well-formed XML.
parser = etree.XMLParser (recover=True)
tree = etree.XML(your_ xml_string, parser)
You'll still need to use your wrapper root element, because recover
mode will ignore everything after the first root closes (and it won't
throw an error).
-- Mark.
On Sep 27, 1:19*am, Uwe Schmitt <rocksportroc.. .@googlemail.co m>
wrote:
I have to parse some text which pretends to be XML. lxml does not want
to parse it, because it lacks a root element.
Another option is BeautifulSoup, which handles badly formed XML really
well: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Uwe Schmitt wrote:
I have to parse some text which pretends to be XML. lxml does not want
to parse it, because it lacks a root element.
I think that this situation is not unusual, so: is there a way to
force lxml to parse it ?
My work around is wrapping the text with "<root>...</root>" before
feeding lxmls parser.
Yes, you can do that. To avoid creating an intermediate string, you can use
the feed parser and do something like this:
parser = etree.XMLParser ()
parser.feed("<r oot>")
parser.feed(you r_xml_tag_seque nce_data)
parser.feed("</root>")
root = parser.close()
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