[XML-SIG] Re: ElementTree 1.2.6 / bug persists

[Greg Wilson]

> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
ElementTree 1.2.6 is a maintenance release
    http://effbot.org/downloads#elementtree
Greg Wilson writes:
Hi Fredrik.  Downloaded and installed on Windows XP; problem persists.
---- Script ----
import sys, os
from elementtree import ElementTree
for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
    ElementTree.parse(filename)
---- Document ----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE lec SYSTEM "swc.dtd">
<lec title="Introduction" id="intro" svn="$Id: intro.swc 21 2005-03-16 
18:08:45Z gvwilson $">

<topic title="Motivation" summary="motivation for course">
 <slide>
  <b1>Test &ldots;
   <b2>Test &lquot;quoting&rquot;</b2>
  </b1>
 </slide>
</topic>
</lec>
---- DTD (in same directory as script and document) ----
<!-- $Id: swc.dtd 22 2005-03-16 18:09:19Z gvwilson $ -->
<!ENTITY ldots "&#x8230;">
<!ENTITY lquot "&#x201C;">
<!ENTITY rquot "&#x201D;">
---- Error trace ----
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "validate.py", line 7, in ?
    ElementTree.parse(filename)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 
859, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 
583, in parse
    parser.feed(data)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 
1242, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
  File "C:\Python23\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line 
1195, in _default
    raise expat.error(
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: undefined entity &ldots;: line 7, column 11

Thanks,
Greg
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