Hello,
I did not see the XML code in details before I gave the code with
ElementTree.
In fact with unclosing tags you will get errors at parse time and it
will give you
the location of errors.
You could use the module from Stefan which is way way superior than
ElementTree
which can validate against DTD or XSD and many many other features
(speed, etc...)
Regards
Karim
On 01/15/2011 07:53 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Wayne Werner, 15.01.2011 03:25:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Terry Carroll wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Karim wrote:
from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
I don't think straight XML parsing will work on this, as it's not valid
XML; it just looks XML-like enough to cause confusion.
It's worth trying out - most (good) parsers "do the right thing" even
when
they don't have strictly valid code. I don't know if xml.etree is
one, but
I'm fairly sure both lxml and BeautifulSoup would probably parse it
correctly.
They wouldn't. For the first tags, the text values would either not
come out at all or they would be read as attributes and thus loose
their order and potentially their whitespace as well. The other tags
would likely get parsed properly, but the parser may end up nesting
them as it hasn't found a closing tag for the previous tags yet.
So, in any case, you'd end up with data loss and/or a structure that
would be much harder to handle than the (relatively) simple file
structure.
Stefan
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