[Tutor] module to parse XMLish text?
Wayne Werner
waynejwerner at gmail.com
Sat Jan 15 03:25:51 CET 2011
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Karim wrote:
>
> from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
>>
>
> I don't think straight XML parsing will work on this, as it's not valid
> XML; it just looks XML-like enough to cause confusion.
>
>
It's worth trying out - most (good) parsers "do the right thing" even when
they don't have strictly valid code. I don't know if xml.etree is one, but
I'm fairly sure both lxml and BeautifulSoup would probably parse it
correctly. Only one way to find out ;)
-Wayne
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