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I have the following code:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ETree
parser = ETree.XMLParser(encoding="utf-8")
tree = ETree.fromstring("C:/Users/XXX/Downloads/test_xml.xml", parser=parser)
print(ETree.tostring(tree))
I get the following error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/XXX/.PyCharmCE2018.1/config/scratches/scratch.py", line 6, in <module>
tree = ETree.fromstring("C:/Users/XXX/Downloads/test_xml.xml", parser=parser)
File "C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1314, in XML
parser.feed(text)
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 2
I checked probably all questions to this error message on StackOverflow, nothing helped:
tree.set('SignalStrength',"100") (from here);etc.
Then I tried to import another XML file with completely another structure - and error message remained the same - even the position: line 1, column 2.
And then I tried to change the file's name to the non-existent - and the error message remained the same! So it is not a problem of file, it is something else. And I can't understand what.
P.S. This is one of the XML files I used:
<note>
<to>Tove</to>
<from>Jani</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
</note>
EDIT: Probably I can't import file in the way I did in the fromstring() function?
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You need to use parse() instead of fromstring() when parsing from a file.
parse() returns an ElementTree instance and tostring() expects an Element instance.
This code works:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ETree
parser = ETree.XMLParser(encoding="utf-8")
tree = ETree.parse("test_xml.xml", parser=parser)
print(ETree.tostring(tree.getroot()))
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