Python Xml Parsing Not Working For Some Sites

I have a very basic XML parser based on the tutorial provided here, for the purpose of reading RSS feeds in Python. def GetRSS(RSSurl): url_info = urllib.urlopen(RSSurl) i

Solution 1:

The error is here:

foritem_nodein xmldoc.documentElement.childNodes:
    if (item_node.nodeName == "item"):

There is no root item element, just a channel. I found this out by just printing all the values of nodeName in the loop.