[lxml-dev] Parsing XML with undefined namespace

[jholg at gmx.de]

Hi,



>    Is it possible to parse slightly broken XML like this?
> 
>    etree.parse("""<xml sanitizer="true" sanitizer:value="true"/>""")
> 
>    >>> lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Namespace prefix sanitizer for value
> on xml is not defined, line 1, column 31
> 

 You can use a parser that is up to the task:

 >>> parser = etree.XMLParser(recover=True)
>>> root = etree.fromstring("""<xml sanitizer="true" 
sanitizer:value="true"/>""", parser=parser)
>>> print root
<Element xml at 268930>
>>> print etree.tostring(root)
<xml sanitizer="true" value="true"/>
>>> 
 Please take a look at help(etree.XMLParser):

 ... 

  - recover            - try hard to parse through broken XML  

 Cheers,

Holger 


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