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Re: [xml] Problem parsing with python?

From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
To: Jim <jimdon gmail com>
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] Problem parsing with python?
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 06:04:26 -0500

On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:18:54PM -0500, Jim wrote:
> I am processin an xml file wil python ... i think there maybe is a bug
> in the library ... but i am not a xml spec guru ...
> 
> The file I am processing is basically:
> ------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
> <!--some html code-->
> ------
> 
> The leading line before "<?xml ..." seems to cause problems.
> Specifically:
> 
> "parser error : XML declaration allowed only at the start of the
> document"

  and the parser is right, it's not XML if you have leading spaces
before the XMLDecl. Not XML means it won't go though an XML parser
without a fatal error. Feature, not a bug !

Daniel

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