python - lxml - parse an xml with no line breaks in it -

i using lxml iterparse in python loop through elements in xml file. works fine of xmls, fails some. 1 of them has no line breaks in it. error , sample of such xml below. clues?

thanks!!

<root><person><name>"xyz"</name><age>"10"</age></person><person><name>"abc"</name><age>"20"</age></person></root> 

error -

xmlsyntaxerror: document empty, line 1, column 1 

code -

from lxml import etree    def parsexml(context,elemlist):              event, element in context:                 if element.tag in elemlist:                                #read text , attributes         element.clear()    def main(object):       elemlist= ['name','age','id']          context=etree.iterparse(fullfilepath, events=("start","end"))           parsexml(context,elemlist)  

etree.iterparse expects buffer source argument. , name of variable passing, "fullfilepath", tells me it's not file (so parser trying parse file_path insted of file content ). try passing opened file instead.

context=etree.iterparse(open(fullfilepath), events=("start","end"))   

or string:

from lxml import etree  xml = '<root><person><name>"xyz"</name><age>"10"</age></person><person><name>"abc"</name><age>"20"</age></person></root>\n'  def parsexml(context,elemlist):     event, element in context:         if element.tag in elemlist:             print element.tag,         element.clear()  def main():     elemlist= ['name','age','id']     context=etree.iterparse(stringio(xml), events=("start","end"))     parsexml(context,elemlist)  main()  >>>name name age age name name age age 

ps: , mean this?

def main(object):