Cleaning an XML file in Python before parsing
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I'm using minidom to parse an xml file and it threw an error indicating that the data is not well formed. I figured out that some of the pages have characters like ไà¸à¹€à¸Ÿà¸¥ &
, causing the parser to hiccup. Is there an easy way to clean the file before I start parsing it? Right now I'm using a regular expressing to throw away anything that isn't an alpha numeric character and the </>
characters, but it isn't quite working.
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