Small problem, really stuck here, I do not understand what's happening, I just want to parse a normal xhtml from the web, nothing special...
Here's the error:
File "class/page.py", line 85, in xslParse
doc = lxml.etree.fromstring(self.content)
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2753, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:54647)
File "parser.pxi", line 1578, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:82764)
File "parser.pxi", line 1457, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:81562)
File "parser.pxi", line 965, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:78232)
File "parser.pxi", line 569, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:74488)
File "parser.pxi", line 650, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:75379)
File "parser.pxi", line 590, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:74712)
XMLSyntaxError: StartTag: invalid element name, line 1, column 2
The self.content is a normal string given by an http response, no clean, no replace, nothing, just the response of the server, so what's the fu..?
The start of the html is that:
<!doctype html>
<!-- paulirish.com/2008/conditional-stylesheets-vs-css-hacks-answer-neither/ -->
<!--[if lt IE 7 ]> <html lang="fr" class="no-js ie6" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html lang="fr" class="no-js ie7" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 8 ]> <html lang="fr" class="no-js ie8" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if IE 9 ]> <html lang="fr" class="no-js ie9" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> <![endif]-->
<!--[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!--> <html lang="en" class="no-js" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product"> <!--<![endif]-->
<head>......
A normal web page, why lxml can't parse a normal well formatted doc?
<!doctype html>indicates that it is a HTML5 document that uses HTML syntax. So you should use an HTML (not XML) parser. For comparison a XML document might start with<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>.You could use
lxml.html.fromstring()as @unutbu suggested in the comments.If you receive the page over HTTP then HTML5 document that uses XML syntax should have an XML media type such as
application/xhtml+xmlorapplication/xmlinstead of for exampletext/htmlfor HTML syntax.