Is the garbage CDATA or attribute data ? CDATA is like <elem>text</elem> and attribute is <elem attr="value" />
Can you pase the relevant part of the XML file here or if it is small enough, the complete XML file ? Send it directly to me since the list removes attachments. --Anand On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Gurpreet Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > Still the problem exists. > > - Gurpreet > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the encoding of your XML file ? i.e in the > > string "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="<encoding>"?>, > > what is <encoding> ? > > > > Make sure it is an encoding like utf-8 or iso-8859-1 > > which can help the parser to understand garbage > > chars. > > > > --Anand > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Gurpreet Sachdeva > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Any idea how to handle the unicode characters existing in an xml file > while > > > parsing it. > > > > > > This is what I am doing: > > > > > > from xml.dom import minidom > > > > > > xmlObj = minidom.parse(fileobj) > > > > > > And the script throws an error because of some special characters ['f > > > (3gpÕ¡¤ë'] present in the xml file. Any suggestion/pointers would be > > > appreciated > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > > Gurpreet Singh > > > _______________________________________________ > > > BangPypers mailing list > > > BangPypers@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -Anand > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > BangPypers@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > Thanks and Regards, > Gurpreet Singh > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > -- -Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
