How to escape special characters in xml attribute using python

Question

I was wondering how it is possible to escape special characters in an xml.

The following example fails sadly:

xml ="""<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    <Render value="a &lt b"/>
"""
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
p = ET.fromstring(xml)

Output:
ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 2, column 28

What is the easiest way round this problem?

Gabriel · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-12 11:40:41Z

1

Wrong escaping!

Try

<Render value="a < b"/>

And everything works fine!

answered May 12, 2015 at 11:40

Gabriel

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