[Pythonmac-SIG] parsing system_profiler xml output

[Just van Rossum]

Just van Rossum wrote:

> Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> > That's actually lower level than the DTD.  Python's XML parser
> > doesn't think the XML is well formed *at all*.  Looking at the XML,
> > it seems that Apple uses some low-ascii characters like this:
> > 
> > 'Nov 11 19:09:50 crack-wlan kernel: \x10ADB present:8c'
> > 
> > expat, the low level parser behind Python's default XML handling
> > capabilities, does not like this at all.  I believe this is
> > probably a bug in expat.
> 
> The XML spec suggests it's an Apple bug:
>     http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets 
> 
> """Legal characters are tab, carriage return, line feed, and the legal
> characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646."""

FWIW, I filed a bug with Apple, #3877177.

Just