python parse special character in lxml

Question

in my xml I have this line

<url>http://www.modeluxproperties.com/?act=list_web&m=search&purpose=sale&project=&type=32&beds=&lop=&Submit.x=37&Submit.y=20</url>

when i do this:

self.doc=etree.parse(xmlFile)

I got this error in that line :

lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: EntityRef: expecting ';', line 5, column 56

Answer 1

It's parsing the ampersands in the URL as XML entities. I think the ampersands should be URL encoded -- try replacing all & with &