[Tutor] Odd traceback - invalid token when extracting contents of XML data element

[Andrew Robert]

Hi Everyone,

Attached are three scripts that I intend to use for transporting a file
via IBM's WebSphere MQSeries middle-ware.

The sender script uses a regular expression to replace characters not
[a-z][A-Z][0-9] or white space with their hex value equivalents.

The purpose of this is to make the contents of a transported file
viewable inside MQSeries queues.


The attached code works just fine for transporting ASCII text files but
it bombs with the following trace when run against binary files.

Does anyone know why this might be occurring?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\MQ\MQ\Scripts\receiver.py", line 267, in ?
    receiver.run()
  File "M:\MQ\MQ\Scripts\receiver.py", line 110, in run
    self.get()
  File "M:\MQ\MQ\Scripts\receiver.py", line 139, in get
    tree = ElementTree(file=buff)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line
543, in __init__
    self.parse(file)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line
583, in parse
    parser.feed(data)
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\elementtree\ElementTree.py", line
1242, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 3,
column 39

I think that a particular character is perhaps not being translated to
ascii as required but I don't know which one it mught be.

Part of the reason for this encoding mechanism is so that it plays nice
with existing perl code already in place.

Not my choice, but what can you do.

Any help you can provide on this would be greatly appreciated.


-- 
Thank you,
Andrew Robert

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