Can Not Find Declaration Of Element 'xml'

I'm getting a lot of parsing errors from python related to my xml file. I read elsewhere on stackoverflow that I should validate the xml file first. I can't understand why this xm

Solution 1:

This:

<xml><hivename="myprojectname">

doesn't validate in http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/, because first you have to check "Well-Formedness only" option there.

Second, it have to follow XML rules, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML#Well-formedness_and_error-handling. So this should look:

<xml><hivename="myprojectname"/></xml>

Solution 2:

The validator you are using appears to be a DTD based validator. Unless you tell it to check for well formedness only (in which case it won't check if your elements and attributes are correct, just that you open/close elements in a sane order, quote your attribute values, etc) then you must start the XML document with a Doctype so that it can find the DTD.