Error in generation: lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Start tag expected, '<' not found

[Mark-Wellings]

Hi,

I've been trying to get the 'generate_facturx_from_file' to work. Beforehand I validated my XML file and it's fine. When running the below unfortuntately, no succcess:

from facturx import generate_facturx_from_file
import os
thisdir = os.getcwd()
regular_pdf_invoice = str(thisdir + '\TEST

facturx_xml_file = str(thisdir + '\ZUGFeRD-invoice.xml')
facturx_pdf_invoice = generate_facturx_from_file(regular_pdf_invoice, facturx_xml_file)

The error I get is the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Mark\Desktop\factur-x.py", line 15, in <module>
facturx_pdf_invoice = generate_facturx_from_file(regular_pdf_invoice, facturx_xml_file)
File "C:\Users\Mark\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\facturx        \facturx.py", line 886, in generate_facturx_from_file
xml_root = etree.fromstring(xml_string)
File "src\lxml\etree.pyx", line 3234, in lxml.etree.fromstring
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1876, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1757, in lxml.etree._parseDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1068, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 601, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 711, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 640, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
File "<string>", line 1
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Start tag expected, '<' not found, line 1, column 1

The files I use are attached (had to attach the xml as txt).
TEST.pdf

ZUGFeRD-invoice.txt

[schmidtkropp]

hello everyone, I have the same mistake.
facturx-pdfgen tmp_splitpdfout / pdfout-GK24848-0021.pdf ZUGFeRD-invoice.xml zug.pdf
works
unfortunately it does not work from the script.

[hvbtup]

Seems like a programming error in your code. You'll have to either double the backslash in your literal or use the r'\ZUGFeRD-invoice.xml' form.

[rockr79]

Hello,
I have the same error message, does anyone have a solution yet?

[Andy87730]

I have the same problem...

[jonaswndl]

I have the same problem :))

[j4s0nmo0n]

Hello,

There is a sample of code:
self.xml = xml
self.root = etree.fromstring(xml)

it seams that instead of using etree.fromstring(xml), use etree.parse(xml)

I did that and it worked for me.

Hope that helped.

Cheers!

[Andy87730]

works fine - thanks!