Using Python to connect to an XML ?

[jehoshua]

I followed the guide at https://stackabuse.com/parsing-xml-with-...in-python/ , some test code

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

with open('xmlfile', 'r') as f:
	file = f.read()

# 'xml' is the parser used. For html files, which BeautifulSoup is typically used for, it would be 'html.parser'.
soup = BeautifulSoup(file, 'xml')

payees = soup.find_all('PAYEE')
for payee in payees:
    print(payee.text)

but no output. It seems to be out putting a lot of blank lines though ? Sample data is of the format:

<PAYEE matchingenabled="0" email="" name="Transfers - inter account" reference="" id="P000001">
<ADDRESS street="" telephone="" state="" city="" postcode=""/>
</PAYEE>