pythonxml库,在Python中的XML文件的字符转义

I need to escape special characters in an ugly XML file (5000 lines or so long). Here's an example of XML I have to deal with:

name & surname

name@name.org

Here the problem is the character "&" in the name. How would you escape special characters like this with a Python library? I didn't find the way to do it with BeautifulSoup.

解决方案

If you don't care about invalid characters in the xml you could use XML parser's recover option (see Parsing broken XML with lxml.etree.iterparse):

from lxml import etree

parser = etree.XMLParser(recover=True) # recover from bad characters.

root = etree.fromstring(broken_xml, parser=parser)

print etree.tostring(root)

Output

name surname

name@name.org