Yeah, I know I could use xml directly or xmltodict, but prefer BeautifulSoup's interface (and have a bunch of useful scripts I've already written that use it).

BeautifulSoup DOES support XML, but it needs a parser (think it might only support lxml now).

For some reason, bs4 is giving a "FeatureNotFound" error when trying to parse xml documents.

This happens with both BeautifulSoup(markdown,'xml') and BeautifulStoneSoup(markdown).

Is this just because lxml is not installed? Is there any way to get BeautifulSoup to use a different xml parser?

Thanks.