how to pass an xml file to lxml to parse?
Question: I'm trying to parse an xml file using lxml. xml.etree allowed me to simply
pass the file name as a parameter to the `parse` function, so I attempted to
do the same with lxml.

My code:

    
    
    from lxml import etree
    from lxml import objectify
    
    file = "C:\Projects\python\cb.xml"
    tree = etree.parse(file)
    

but I get the error:

    
    
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "cb.py", line 5, in <module>
        tree = etree.parse(file)
      File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2698, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:4
    9590)
      File "parser.pxi", line 1491, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etre
    e.c:71205)
      File "parser.pxi", line 1520, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lx
    ml.etree.c:71488)
      File "parser.pxi", line 1420, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.e
    tree.c:70583)
      File "parser.pxi", line 975, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/
    lxml/lxml.etree.c:67736)
      File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDo
    c (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:63820)
      File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.e
    tree.c:64741)
      File "parser.pxi", line 565, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etr
    ee.c:64084)
    lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: AttValue: " or ' expected, line 2, column 26
    

What am I doing wrong?


Answer: What you are doing wrong is (1) not checking whether you got the same outcome
by using `xml.etree` on the same file (2) not reading the error message, which
indicates a syntax error in line 2 of the file, way down stream from any file-
opening issue

