Upgrading from older versions of FastKML

Q: I updated from 0.12 to 1.0.0 and now getting the following errors when using parse():

File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 3701, in lxml.etree._Validator.assert_
AssertionError: Element ...

A: Your KML does not validate against the XML Schema. You can read it without validations by passing validate=False or strict=False to the parse method:

from fastkml.kml import KML
doc = KML.parse('path/to/your/file.kml', strict=False)
# or
doc = KML.parse('path/to/your/file.kml', validate=False)

With version 1.0, .from_string() is a class method that returns a new object.

In fastkml 0.x:

postcode_kml = kml.KML()
postcode_kml.from_string(kml_file.read())

Becomes in 1.0:

postcode_kml = kml.KML.from_string(kml_file.read())