odoo gives parse error on using email.template while creating email template

I would like to create email template in odoo. My code is as follows,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openerp>
    <data>    
      <record id="room_request_approval" model="email.template">
            <field name="name">Approval Notification</field>
            <field name="email_from">${object.users_company.email}</field>
            <field name="subject">Room request approved</field>
            <field name="email_to" >${object.assignee.email}</field>
            <field name="auto_delete" eval="True"/>
            <field name="model_id" ref="model_request_room"/>
            <field name="body_html"><![CDATA[
                <html>
                    <head>
                        <title>Room Request Approved</title>
                        <style> 
                            span.oe_mail_footer_access {
                                display:block;    
                                text-align:center;
                                color:grey;                                
                            }
                        </style>
                    </head>
                    <body>
                       <p>Hiii</p>
                    </body>
                </html>
                ]]>
            </field>
        </record>

It is giving error as follows, ParseError: "email.template" while parsing file

Solution

Have you checked if the problem is inside the body_html field? Try with something simpler, like the following, and also add safe to the emails:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<openerp>
    <data>    
      <record id="room_request_approval" model="email.template">
            <field name="name">Approval Notification</field>
            <field name="email_from">${(object.users_company.email or '')|safe}</field>
            <field name="subject">Room request approved</field>
            <field name="email_to" >${(object.assignee.email or '')|safe}</field>
            <field name="auto_delete" eval="True"/>
            <field name="model_id" ref="model_request_room"/>
            <field name="body_html"><![CDATA[
<p>Hello!</p>]]></field>
        </record>
    </data>
</openerp>

I guess your model is named request.room and it has two Many2one fields named users_company and assignee, hasn't it?

And in Python code, you should have something like this to send the mail:

request_room_recordset = self.env['request.room'].search(
    whatever_domain).ensure_one()
et_pool = self.pool.get('email.template')
mail_sent = et_pool.send_mail(
    self.env.cr, 1, template.id, request_room_recordset.id,
    force_send=True, context=self.env.context)