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Muhammad Imran
Muhammad Imran

Reputation: 1101

"no element found" using xml.etree.ElementTree with XML file from the web

Here's the Python source:

fsock = urllib2.urlopen('http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/exportview/divisions/uos-fp/2009/XML/uos-fp_2009.xml')

doc=et.parse(fsock)

When I tried to run this it gives the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\reading and writing xml file from web1.py", line 30, in 
    doc=et.parse(fsock)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1176, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 654, in parse
    self._root = parser.close()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1635, in close
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1487, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0

Can any one help as to why this is happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5862

Answers (1)

DrDee
DrDee

Reputation: 3609

Your code works:

import urllib2  
from xml.etree.cElementTree import parse, dump  

fsock = urllib2.urlopen('http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/exportview/divisions/uos-fp/2009/XML/uos-fp_2009.xml')

doc = parse(fsock)  
dump(doc)

Upvotes: 0

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