[Biopython] Problem with Bio.Entrez...

[Nathan J. Edwards]

On 8/26/2010 10:40 PM, Michiel de Hoon wrote:
> The problem is with the XML returned by NCBI. Currently, the XML
> returned by einfo contains<Docsum>  elements that are not described
> in the corresponding DTD
> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/DTD/eInfo_020511.dtd). The
> parser therefore doesn't know how to handle them. Could you write an
> email to NCBI that einfo generates XML that is inconsistent with the
> corresponding DTD?

Sent.

It would be nice (IWBN) if the parser threw an exception that indicated 
that the returned XML didn't validate...at least then the (very 
cryptic!) error message wouldn't look like a logic error in the parser.

- n

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