ElementTree and DTDs

**=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=2E_Pablo_Fern=E1ndez?=** · Jun 27 '08, 04:25 PM

Re: ElementTree and DTDs

Or is there another library that would handle DTDs correctly,
performing entity replacements?

Thanks.

On May 16, 12:20 am, J. Pablo Fernández <pup...@pupeno. comwrote:

Hello,
>
Is ElementTree supposed to load DTDs? I have some xmls heavy on
entities and it fails this way:
>
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 21 2008, 11:12:42)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright" , "credits" or "license" for more information.>>f ilename = "revo/xml/a.xml"

>import xml.etree.Eleme ntTree as ET
>ET.parse(filen ame)

>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py" , line 862, in
parse
tree.parse(sour ce, parser)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py" , line 586, in
parse
parser.feed(dat a)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py" , line 1245, in
feed
self._parser.Pa rse(data, 0)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/xml/etree/ElementTree.py" , line 1201, in
_default
self._parser.Er rorColumnNumber )
xml.parsers.exp at.ExpatError: undefined entity &jcirc;: line 13,
column 10>>import xml.etree.cElem entTree as ET

>ET.parse(filen ame)

>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<string>", line 45, in parse
File "<string>", line 32, in parse
SyntaxError: undefined entity &c_j;: line 46, column 17
>
Thanks.