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Fixed #78: Remove encoding tag because lxml won't accept it for unicode #97

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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions newspaper/parsers.py
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import lxml.etree
import lxml.html
import lxml.html.clean
import re

from copy import deepcopy

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def fromstring(cls, html):
html = utils.encodeValue(html)
try:
# Remove encoding tag because lxml won't accept it for unicode objects (Issue #78)
if html.startswith('<?'):
html = re.sub(r'^\<\?.*?\?\>', '', html, flags=re.DOTALL)

cls.doc = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
except Exception, e:
print '[Parse lxml ERR]', str(e)
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