ElementTree XML parsing problem

[Stefan Behnel]

Hegedüs Ervin, 27.04.2011 21:33:
> hello,
>
>> I'm using ElementTree to parse an XML file, but it stops at the
>> second record (id = 002), which contains a non-standard ascii
>> character, ä. Here's the XML:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <snapshot time="Mon Apr 25 08:47:23 PDT 2011">
>> <records>
>> <record id="001" education="High School" employment="7 yrs" />
>> <record id="002" education="Universität Bremen" employment="3 years" />
>> <record id="003" education="River College" employment="5 yrs" />
>> </records>
>> </snapshot>
>>
>> The complaint offered up by the parser is
>
> I've checked this xml with your script, I think your locales
> settings are not good.
>
> $ ./parse.py
>
> XML file: test.xml
> 001 High School
> 002 Universität Bremen
> 003 River College
>
> (name of xml file is "test.xml")
>
> So, I started change the codepage mark of xml:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>  - same result
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2" ?>  - same result
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>  - same result

You probably changed this in an editor that supports XML and thus saves the 
file in the declared encoding. Switching between the three by simply 
changing the first line (the XML declaration) and not adapting the encoding 
of the document itself would otherwise not yield the same result for the 
document given above.

Stefan