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Parsing XML using's Python's ElementTree

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  1. from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
  2. import re
  3.  
  4. def strip_whitespace(my_string):
  5.     """Removes spaces, tabs, and newline characters from a string.
  6.     \s matches any whitespace character, this is equivalent to the class [\t\n\r\f\v]."""
  7.     return re.sub("\s", "", my_string)
  8.  
  9. my_xml = """
  10. <root>
  11.     <child>One</child>
  12.     <child>Two</child>
  13. </root>
  14. """
  15.  
  16. my_xml = strip_whitespace(my_xml)
  17.  
  18. element = ET.XML(my_xml)
  19.  
  20. for subelement in element:
  21.     print subelement.text

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