"Read using Expat parser and print and objectified XML file" import sys from gnosis.xml.objectify import XML_Objectify, pyobj_printer, EXPAT if len(sys.argv) > 1: for filename in sys.argv[1:]: try: xml_obj = XML_Objectify(xml_src=filename, parser=EXPAT) py_obj = xml_obj.make_instance() except SyntaxError: print "Caught SyntaxError exception!" print "Possibly an XML file with namespaces that is causing this," print "so try again but ignore XML namespaces..." XML_Objectify.expat_kwargs['nspace_sep'] = None xml_obj = XML_Objectify(xml_src=filename, parser=EXPAT) try: py_obj = xml_obj.make_instance() print "it worked!" except: print "it did NOT work!" raise print pyobj_printer(py_obj).encode('UTF-8') else: print "Please specify one or more XML files to Objectify."