[SOLVED] How to deal with "<?" annotation in xml file with Python

How to deal with "<?" annotation in xml file with Python

Somebody know how to deal with this kind of XML annotation with Python, it's my first time I saw this.

&lt;?link id="752760" resource-uuid="UUID-9f0575a3-1847-1cde-fd35-f18014fdecf3" resource-id="570935" resource-type="fork" type="ResourceLink"?&gt;

I need to query this kind of 'element' to get the resource-uuid value.

Solution

Thanks to everybody, I learned about the processing instruction and with this, I did a research about how to deal with it, bellow I let my scratch if anybody would need it:

from lxml import etree

...

file = 'path/to/file.xml'
tree = etree.parse(file)
result = tree.xpath('//processing-instruction("link")')
for pi in result:
    # Each pi is a processing instruction tagged as 'link'
    if pi.get('type').__str__() == 'ResourceImport':
        # PI with type = ResourceImport
        print pi.text # Check the text of tis PI

Using lxml library is easy to get the processing instructions using XPath.

I hope this code snippet helps to people who get here because of this question.