Sorry everyone, problem solved. I was not passing the correct thing to etree.DTD() it would seem.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Matt Young <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mabufo@gmail.com">mabufo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello everyone. <br><br>I am trying to validate some xml with the lxml python library, and a file containing DTD. I am getting the following error: default.xml:4:0:ERROR:VALID:DTD_UNKNOWN_ELEM: No declaration for element contests.<br>

<br>My xml file is here: <a href="http://pastie.org/2832639" target="_blank">http://pastie.org/2832639</a> and my DTD file is here: <a href="http://pastie.org/2832658" target="_blank">http://pastie.org/2832658</a> <br><br>
are there any obvious issues in my XML or DTD that would cause lxml to generate this error? <br clear="all"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<br>-- <br>-Matthew <br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-Matthew <br>