xml data or other?

Fri Nov 9 07:54:43 EST 2012

Hello,
I want to process XML-like data like this:
<testname=ltpacpi.sh>
	<description>
		ACPI (Advanced Control Power & Integration) testscript for 2.5 kernels.
	<\description>
	<test_location>
		ltp/testcases/kernel/device-drivers/acpi/ltpacpi.sh
	<\test_location>
<\testname>
After manually editing the data above, the python module 
xml.etree.ElementTree parses it without failing due to error in the data 
structure.
Edits were substituting '/' for '\' on the end tags, and adding the 
following structure:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<data>
 <testname name=ltpacpi.sh>
 ...
 <\testname>
</data>
Is there a name for the format above (perhaps xhtml)?
I'd like to find a python module that can translate it to proper xml. 
Does one exist? etree?
Many thanks!
az