[XML-SIG] Problems with XML processing

Keith Jackson krjackson@lbl.gov
Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:01:56 -0800


Aravind,
It looks to me that you passed in an invalid url: 
"/users/aravindc/Desktop/xml/book.xml". Try 
file://users/aravindc/Desktop/xml/book.xml instead.
--keith

aravind c wrote:

> Hi,
>       I am new to python and XML.  I need to use python for XML 
> processing.  I am familiar with the basics of python.  I have python 
> 2.2 installed on my machine.  I have downloaded PyXML and installed it 
> as per instructions given in the documentation.  I was able to install 
> in without any hitch.
>
>        If I try to run a test program present in the documentation I 
> get the following error messages:
>
>  File "saxdemo.py", line 67, in ?
>     p.parse(in_sysID)
>   File 
> "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_xmlplus/sax/drivers/drv_pyexpat.py", 
> line 59, in parse
>     self.parseFile(urllib2.urlopen(sysID),sysID)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 138, in urlopen
>     return _opener.open(url, data)
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 320, in open
>     type_ = req.get_type()
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/urllib2.py", line 224, in get_type
>     raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
> ValueError: unknown url type: /users/aravindc/Desktop/xml/book.xml
>