title: XMLSyntaxError Start tag expected, '<' not found
body: <p>In Django i build a script that create xml object to make xml request. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>my_xml = etree.XML('''\"&lt;?xml version="1.0"? encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE peticion SYSTEM "http://example.com"&gt; ]&gt;&lt;request&gt;&lt;/request&gt;"''')
  my_xml_doc = etree.ElementTree(my_xml)
  my_tipe = etree.SubElement(my_xml, "element")
  my_tipe.text = 'Element'
  my_xml_serialize = etree.parse(my_xml)
  my_request = urllib2.Request(url, my_xml_serialize)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But django throws an error</p>
  
  <pre><code>XMLSyntaxError Start tag expected, '&lt;' not found, line 1, column 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for your answers!</p>