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<p class=MsoNormal>Hey all, I’m simply trying to get my feet wet with XML
parsing, and I tried to just do something simple with ElementTree, just throw
the XML tags from a file into a list. The code is as follows (and may be
wrong):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>import</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> glob</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>import</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> xml.etree.ElementTree </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>as</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> ET</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>tree = ET.parse(</span><i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#00AA00'>'nameofFilehere'</span></i><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>).getroot()</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>list = []</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>for</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> branch </span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>in</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> tree:</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> this = {}</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>for</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> child </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:blue'>in</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> branch.getchildren():</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>
this[child.tag] = child.text</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'> list.append(this)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Every time I run
the program, I get this error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'>Traceback (most recent call last):</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> </span><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>File "nameofFilehere",
line 4, in <module></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> coords = ET.parse('nameofFilehere').getroot()</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> </span><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>File "C:\Program
Files\Python25\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 862, in parse</span></u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> tree.parse(source,
parser)</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> </span><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>File "C:\Program
Files\Python25\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 587, in parse</span></u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> self._root =
parser.close()</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'> </span><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:navy'>File "C:\Program
Files\Python25\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1254, in close</span></u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:red'>
self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:red'>xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 3, column 0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>What can I do to
fix this, if anything? My overall goal has been to simply get the text of
the XML document into a text file, but even that has failed (I get naught but
gibberish), so any help would be appreciated.</span><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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