ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token) using cElementTree

Question

I receive xml strings from an external source that can contains unsanitized user contributed content.

The following xml string gave a ParseError in cElementTre

Answer 1

lxml solved the issue, in my case

from lxml import etree

for _, elein etree.iterparse(xml_file, tag='tag_i_wanted', unicode='utf-8'):
    print(ele.tag, ele.text)  

in another case,

parser = etree.XMLParser(recover=True)
tree = etree.parse(xml_file, parser=parser)
tags_needed = tree.iter('TAG NAME')

Thanks to theeastcoastwest

Python 2.7