XML Parsing: Expat Error

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gerth, William D wrote:

> 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):

...

> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 3, column 0
> 
> 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.

your XML file is broken (note that it's the "parse" function that throws 
this error).

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