SAXParseException: <unknown>:2:0: syntax error

[sidgitind]

Hi @WillKoehrsen , I am trying to execute on the code in the notebook and ran into an error in the xml parser code. I am getting an SAX error at this code snippet. handler = WikiXmlHandler()

Parsing object

parser = xml.sax.make_parser()
parser.setContentHandler(handler)

Iteratively process file

#handler._pages

for l in lines[-165:-109]:
parser.feed(l)

The stack trace is as follows

---

ExpatError Traceback (most recent call last)
myprojectpath\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py in feed(self, data, isFinal)
216 # except when invoked from close.
--> 217 self._parser.Parse(data, isFinal)
218 except expat.error as e:

ExpatError: syntax error: line 2, column 0

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

SAXParseException Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
40
41 for l in lines[-165:-109]:
---> 42 parser.feed(l)
43
44 print(handler._pages)

myprojectpath\lib\xml\sax\expatreader.py in feed(self, data, isFinal)
219 exc = SAXParseException(expat.ErrorString(e.code), e, self)
220 # FIXME: when to invoke error()?
--> 221 self._err_handler.fatalError(exc)
222
223 def _close_source(self):

myprojectpath\lib\xml\sax\handler.py in fatalError(self, exception)
36 def fatalError(self, exception):
37 "Handle a non-recoverable error."
---> 38 raise exception
39
40 def warning(self, exception):

SAXParseException: :2:0: syntax error

Appreciate your time in helping me proceed further and handling this issue. Thanks

[sidgitind]

The dump I am using is enwiki-20190101-pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2 and my machine is a Windows 10 laptop

[sandertan]

@sidgitind As far as I understand, the part that you're feeding into the parser is not valid XML, because of the subset of lines: [-165:-109]. This subset of lines was valid for the 20180901 release used in the example, but not for the 20190101 release. Could you try a different subset, or experiment with removing the subset?