python 2.5 cElementTree entity troubles

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

this snippet, adapted from

http://svn.effbot.org/public/tags/celementtree-1.0-20050126/selftest.py

fails miserably with an unknown entity exception:

from xml.etree.cElementTree import *

ENTITY_XML = """
<document>&entity;</document>
"""

parser = XMLTreeBuilder()
parser.entity["entity"] = "text"
print parser.entity

parser.feed(ENTITY_XML)
root = parser.close()


Any suggestions on how to teach the built-in ET-parser entities?

Python version is Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04) on OSX.

Regards,

Diez

 

[Stefan Behnel]

Any suggestions on how to teach the built-in ET-parser entities?

As you already do it in your code.

http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm#tag-ET.XMLParser.entity

But I guess your version of cET is just too old.

Stefan

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

As you already do it in your code.

http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm#tag-ET.XMLParser.entity

But I guess your version of cET is just too old.

Unfortunately, it's the python 2.5-build-in one..

Diez

 

[Stefan Behnel]

As you already do it in your code.

http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm#tag-ET.XMLParser.entity

Hmmm, I never needed this, but the test doesn't work for me either (with ET
1.3, Python 2.5.1). ET's parser uses the generic expat callback for entities,
but it doesn't seem to get called for entities on my side... Looks like
something's broken there.

Stefan

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hmmm, I never needed this, but the test doesn't work for me either (with ET
1.3, Python 2.5.1). ET's parser uses the generic expat callback for entities,
but it doesn't seem to get called for entities on my side... Looks like
something's broken there.

I tried to go with explicit cElementTree and elementtree-installations -
same problem....

Could this be a bug in the underlying python-shipped expat parser?

Diez