Anyway to parse a UTF-16 XML file into an instance of ElementTree?

Asked Jul 29 '22 at 18:45

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I am trying to parse a XML file into python using the ElementTree class, which also means that I want to make it into a ElementTree instance. I tried using the "parse" method of the ElementTree class, but it gives the following error:

xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect: line 1, column 30

When investigating further, it is because it doesn't like the fact that the inputted XML file is encoded in UTF-16 rather than UTF-8.

Any way to parse this XML and make it into a ElementTree instance?

edited Jul 29 '22 at 19:47

martineau

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asked Jul 29 '22 at 18:45

Bruv Chicken

Maybe this helps: https://stackoverflow.com/q/24045892/407651 – mzjn Jul 29 '22 at 18:47
So the file is UTF-16, but claims to be UTF-8? – Sören Jul 29 '22 at 18:50

Anyway to parse a UTF-16 XML file into an instance of ElementTree?

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