XML DOM

[Jay Dorsey]

Carlo Sette wrote:
> Hi all,
> when I try to Parse a sample XML ducument Python display the follow error
> message:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./mysql.py", line 57, in ?
>     DOM=xml.dom.minidom.parseString(XML)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/minidom.py", line 1925, in
> parseString
>     return expatbuilder.parseString(string)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 940, in
> parseString
>     return builder.parseString(string)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/xml/dom/expatbuilder.py", line 223, in
> parseString
>     parser.Parse(string, True)
> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: mismatched tag: line 1, column 112
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I used xml.dom.minodom module and the source code is:
> 
> 
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> 
> import xml.dom.minidom
> 
> XML="""<?xml version="1.0"?><tabedata><row><EMPLOYEE_ID>55></EMPLOYEE_ID>
> <FIRST>Carlo</FIRST><LAST>Sette</LAST></row></tabledata>"""

I would guess that its either the misspelling of the first <tabledata> 
tag (missing an L), or the unescaped > sign right after the 55.  If 
these were typos when you transcribed to the e-mail, check your 
script--you might have other typos in your XML string.

Also, I believe entity names are generally lowercase; i.e. <employee_id> 
vs. <EMPLOYEE_ID>.  I don't work w/ XML enough to recall if this is 
required or not; so disregard if I'm way off base :)


Jay