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Asked: 2026-05-14T04:56:24+00:00

I’m using minidom to parse an xml file and it threw an error indicating

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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 ไอเฟล &, 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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  1. Editorial Team

    Try

    xmltext = re.sub(u"[^\x20-\x7f]+",u"",xmltext)

    It will get rid of everything except 0x20-0x7F range.

    You may start from \x01, if you want want to keep control characters like tab, line breaks.

    xmltext = re.sub(u"[^\x01-\x7f]+",u"",xmltext)
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