Article:		Decomposition, Process, Recomposition
Subject:		Expatreader.py error (line 156)
Date:		2004-08-04 02:59:10
From:		m breeb
My Python2.3 installation on win2000 has a little problem running the code. I'm getting a SAXNotSupportedException (expat does not report namespace prefixes). Any ideas what I'm missing here?

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• Expatreader.py error (line 156)
  2004-08-06 19:32:07 Uche Ogbuji [Reply]
  
  It turns out I got burned yet again by the differences between PySAX with and without PyXML installed. You can't set the namespace prefix feature in PySAX unless you have PyXML installed. I posted updated/fixed version of sax2dom_chunker.py in the Python Cookbook. Use that version rather than listing 2 here, and then omit the line

  
  parser.setFeature(sax.handler.feature_namespace_prefixes, 1)

  
  from your set-up code.

  
  Good luck.