What is wrong? The minidom or the XML file?

[Anthony Liu]

I copy-pasted the following sample xml document from
http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~xml/sample.html and saved
it as samplexml.xml. Please note that I removed the
following line

<!DOCTYPE DOCUMENT SYSTEM "simple.dtd ">

from the original xml sample.

<?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<DOCUMENT trackNum="1234" >
<TITLE> Sample Document </TITLE>
<AUTHOR> <FIRSTNAME> Brandon </FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME> Voss </LASTNAME>
<COMPANY> The XML Pages </COMPANY> </AUTHOR>
<SUMMARY> This is element text and an entity
follows:&Descri ption;
</SUMMARY>
</DOCUMENT>

Then, I attempted to parse this xml document with the
following python code, which is saved as xmltest.py.

from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' sample.xml')
print xmldoc.toxml()

I got the following error message:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python23\co des\xmltest.py" , line 4, in
-toplevel-
xmldoc = minidom.parse(' samplexml.xml')
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\minid om.py", line
1919, in parse
return expatbuilder.pa rse(file)
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
924, in parse
result = builder.parseFi le(fp)
File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
207, in parseFile
parser.Parse(bu ffer, 0)
ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
column 5[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

I have no clue why that xml document is not
well-formed.

Any hint please?


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[Erik Max Francis]

Re: What is wrong? The minidom or the XML file?

Anthony Liu wrote:
[color=blue]
> <?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>[/color]
^
...[color=blue]
> ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
> column 5[/color]

Line 1 column 5 is the L in <?XML. That XML document type declaration
is invalid; the "XML" needs to be in lowercase.

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[Peter Abel]

Re: What is wrong? The minidom or the XML file?

Anthony Liu <antonyliu2002@ yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.2 13.1078910068.1 9534.python-list@python.org >...[color=blue]
> I copy-pasted the following sample xml document from
> http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~xml/sample.html and saved
> it as samplexml.xml. Please note that I removed the
> following line
>
> <!DOCTYPE DOCUMENT SYSTEM "simple.dtd ">
>
> from the original xml sample.
>
> <?XML version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <DOCUMENT trackNum="1234" >
> <TITLE> Sample Document </TITLE>
> <AUTHOR> <FIRSTNAME> Brandon </FIRSTNAME>
> <LASTNAME> Voss </LASTNAME>
> <COMPANY> The XML Pages </COMPANY> </AUTHOR>
> <SUMMARY> This is element text and an entity
> follows:&Descri ption;
> </SUMMARY>
> </DOCUMENT>
>
> Then, I attempted to parse this xml document with the
> following python code, which is saved as xmltest.py.
>
> from xml.dom import minidom
> xmldoc = minidom.parse(' sample.xml')
> print xmldoc.toxml()
>
> I got the following error message:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>[/color][/color]
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "C:\Python23\co des\xmltest.py" , line 4, in
> -toplevel-
> xmldoc = minidom.parse(' samplexml.xml')
> File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\minid om.py", line
> 1919, in parse
> return expatbuilder.pa rse(file)
> File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
> 924, in parse
> result = builder.parseFi le(fp)
> File "C:\Python23\li b\xml\dom\expat builder.py", line
> 207, in parseFile
> parser.Parse(bu ffer, 0)
> ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1,
> column 5[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>[/color][/color]
>
> I have no clue why that xml document is not
> well-formed.
>
> Any hint please?
>
>
> _______________ _______________ ____
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster
> http://search.yahoo.com[/color]

One additional possibility to get another quick help about errors
in the xml-document is - when working under MS-Windows - to open
the document with the Internet Explorer up from version 5.xx
or so.
In your case it tells me exactly what Erik Max Francis told you.

Regards
Peter