How to remove xml declaration for parsing with lxml objectify?

Question

Python

There is an xml response from the view server:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<A>
  <url replyId="fb71e2db-2912-44c3-aab6-e92ced783e11">http://localhost:8080/opt/out/Ticket/3</url>
  <url replyId="4ca8fbae-b05f-42bf-bf22-16fa7d2a2b0b">http://localhost:8080/opt/out/Ticket/5</url>
  <url replyId="e3cdc104-98a9-4b45-941a-559649c6969a">http://localhost:8080/opt/out/Ticket/6</url>
  <ver>1</ver>
</A>

when trying to parse this response using the lxml.fromstring method, an error occurs

ValueError: Unicode strings with encoding declaration are not supported. Please use bytes input or XML fragments without declaration.

Obviously, it's in the very first line:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>

but I can't get rid of it. thanks in advance

UPD
python code

import requests
from lxml import objectify as ob

r = requests.get('http://localhost:8080/opt/out')
obj = ob.fromstring(r.text)

UPD
There is an idea to parse the response with a regular expression, removing the format declaration. Thereby preparing the data for parsing. But, for sure there is a solution, more concise and simple.

Answer 1

You have r.text, you can either remove the first line from it (if there are line breaks) or stupidly replace declaration with an empty string.