Re: XML expat error

2008-02-28 Thread dirkheld
On 28 feb, 08:18, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:02:25 -0800, dirkheld wrote: Something strange here. The xml file causing the problem has only 361 lines. Isn't there a way to catch this error, ignore it and continu with the rest of the other files?

Re: XML expat error

2008-02-28 Thread Stefan Behnel
dirkheld wrote: On 28 feb, 08:18, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:02:25 -0800, dirkheld wrote: Something strange here. The xml file causing the problem has only 361 lines. Isn't there a way to catch this error, ignore it and continu with the rest of

Re: XML expat error

2008-02-28 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:37:10 -0800, dirkheld wrote: Yes of course: handle the exception instead of letting it propagate to the top level and ending the program. Ehm, maybe a stupid question... how. I'm rather new to python and I never user error handling. Then you should work through the

XML expat error

2008-02-27 Thread dirkheld
Hi, I have written a piece of code that reads all xml files in a directory in onder to retrieve one element in each of these files. All files have the same XML structure. After file 123 I receive the following error : xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 554,

Re: XML expat error

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Brodie
dirkheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 554, column 20 I guess that the element I try to read or the XML(which would be strange since they have been created with the same code) can't ben

Re: XML expat error

2008-02-27 Thread dirkheld
On 27 feb, 17:18, Richard Brodie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dirkheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 554, column 20 I guess that the element I try to read or the XML(which would be strange

Re: XML expat error

2008-02-27 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:02:25 -0800, dirkheld wrote: Something strange here. The xml file causing the problem has only 361 lines. Isn't there a way to catch this error, ignore it and continu with the rest of the other files? Yes of course: handle the exception instead of letting it propagate