ElementTree and DTDs

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=2E_Pablo_Fern=E1ndez?=]

Hello,

Is ElementTree supposed to load DTDs? I have some xmls heavy on
entities and it fails this way:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>filename = "revo/xml/a.xml"
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
ET.parse(filename)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 862, in
parse
tree.parse(source, parser)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 586, in
parse
parser.feed(data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1245, in
feed
self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1201, in
_default
self._parser.ErrorColumnNumber)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: undefined entity &jcirc;: line 13,
column 10

>>import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
ET.parse(filename)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 45, in parse
File "<string>", line 32, in parse
SyntaxError: undefined entity &c_j;: line 46, column 17

Thanks.

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=2E_Pablo_Fern=E1ndez?=]

Or is there another library that would handle DTDs correctly,
performing entity replacements?

Thanks.

On May 16, 12:20*am, J. Pablo Fernández <[e-mail]:

Hello,

Is ElementTree supposed to load DTDs? I have some xmls heavy on
entities and it fails this way:

Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.>>filename = "revo/xml/a.xml"

>import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
ET.parse(filename)

Traceback (most recent call last):
* File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
* File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 862, in
parse
* * tree.parse(source, parser)
* File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 586, in
parse
* * parser.feed(data)
* File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1245, in
feed
* * self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
* File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1201, in
_default
* * self._parser.ErrorColumnNumber)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: undefined entity &jcirc;: line 13,
column 10>>import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET

>ET.parse(filename)

Traceback (most recent call last):
* File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
* File "<string>", line 45, in parse
* File "<string>", line 32, in parse
SyntaxError: undefined entity &c_j;: line 46, column 17

Thanks.

[Stefan Behnel]

J. Pablo Fernández wrote:

Is ElementTree supposed to load DTDs?

AFAIR, you have to provide entities by hand.

Or is there another library that would handle DTDs correctly,
performing entity replacements?

http://codespeak.net/lxml
http://codespeak.net/lxml/parsing.html#parser-options

Stefan