-        playlist_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, u'includes/playlists/itunes.inc')
-        playlist_snippet = self._download_webpage(playlist_url, movie)
-        playlist_cleaned = re.sub(r'(?s)<script[^<]*?>.*?</script>', u'', playlist_snippet)
-        playlist_cleaned = re.sub(r'<img ([^<]*?)>', r'<img \1/>', playlist_cleaned)
-        # The ' in the onClick attributes are not escaped, it couldn't be parsed
-        # with xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring
-        # like: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/gravity/
-        def _clean_json(m):
-            return u'iTunes.playURL(%s);' % m.group(1).replace('\'', ''')
-        playlist_cleaned = re.sub(self._JSON_RE, _clean_json, playlist_cleaned)
-        playlist_html = u'<html>' + playlist_cleaned + u'</html>'
-
-        doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(playlist_html)
+        playlist_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, 'includes/playlists/itunes.inc')
+
+        def fix_html(s):
+            s = re.sub(r'(?s)<script[^<]*?>.*?</script>', '', s)
+            s = re.sub(r'<img ([^<]*?)>', r'<img \1/>', s)
+            # The ' in the onClick attributes are not escaped, it couldn't be parsed
+            # like: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/gravity/
+
+            def _clean_json(m):
+                return 'iTunes.playURL(%s);' % m.group(1).replace('\'', ''')
+            s = re.sub(self._JSON_RE, _clean_json, s)
+            s = '<html>%s</html>' % s
+            return s
+        doc = self._download_xml(playlist_url, movie, transform_source=fix_html)
+