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

This code snippet worked for me. I have an issue with the parsing batch of XML files. I had to encode them to 'iso-8859-5'

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse(filename, parser = ET.XMLParser(encoding = 'iso-8859-5'))