Merge pull request #5 from SkyTruth/master

Bugfix to handle big files 8-) thanks a lot
cleder · Oct 10, 2013 · 84144cc · 84144cc
2 parents f6e1f48 + ee66e81
commit 84144cc
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/fastkml/kml.py b/fastkml/kml.py
@@ -84,7 +84,11 @@ def __init__(self, ns=None):
 
     def from_string(self, xml_string):
         """ create a KML object from a xml string"""
-        element = etree.XML(xml_string)
+        if config.LXML:
+            element = etree.fromstring(xml_string, parser=etree.XMLParser(huge_tree=True))
+        else:
+            element = etree.XML(xml_string)
+
         if element.tag.endswith('kml'):
             ns = element.tag.rstrip('kml')
             documents = element.findall('%sDocument' % ns)