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I am trying to read a xml file and create a dictionary object
this is my xml 4 levels of elements

Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<Drivetrain> 
<Element  name="PowerUnit">
  <Element  name="Transmission">
        <Element  name="TX1">
        </Element>
        <Element  name="TX2">
        </Element> 

  </Element>

  <Element  name="Engine">
        <Element  name="V4">
        </Element>
        <Element  name="V6">
        </Element>

    </Element>
    <Element name="Hybrid">
      <Element name="">
       </Element>
       <Element name="Battery">
            <Element name ="BattteryA">
              <Element name="A1">
            </Element>
            <Element name ="BattteryB">
            </Element>
            <Element name ="BattteryC">
            </Element>
       </Element>
    </Element>
  </Element>
  </Drivetrain>

This is my code

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


def DesignSpace():
    infile = open("data.xml","r")
    contents = infile.read()
    soup = BeautifulSoup(contents,'xml')
    space = soup.find('Element')
    items = {}
    
    children = space.findChildren("Element" , recursive=False)
    for child in children:
        
        key = child["name"]
        for a in child.findChildren("Element"):
            value=a["name"]
            
            subkey=a.findParent("Element")
            subkey1=subkey["name"]
            items.setdefault(subkey1, []).append(value)
        
            
    
    print(items)

    return items


DesignSpace()

I can only go 1 level down I want to go all the way to the 4th level or nth level
Transmission
Tx1
Tx2
Engine
V4
V6

I have an lxml package that I am releasing soon. the code is here: https://python-forum.io/Thread-selneium-...0#pid62480
it uses lxml to create a dictionary for an html file. with a slight modification (or maybe none at all), it will work with xml.