Load XML and iterate through tags

[jkimrey]

Hi.

I'm trying to use Python (3.6.5) and lxml to iterate through an existing XML file.

I would like to take the XML file's opening tag names and create a folder based on the XML structure and tag name.

So, for example, if the XML file contained the following:

<FolderA>
   <FolderB>
   </FolderB>
   <FolderC>
      <FolderD>
      </FolderD>
   </FolderC>
   <FolderE>
   </FolderE>
</FolderA>

then I would like to create the following folders:

C:\FolderA
C:\FolderA\FolderB
C:\FolderA\FolderC
C:\FolderA\FolderC\FolderD
C:\FolderA\FolderE

The first thing I'm doing is loading the xml file and then parse through using 'interparse' :

tree = etree.xmlfile(xml)
context = etree.iterparse(tree)

When I run this, however, I'm getting a 'TypeError: expected str, bytes, or os.PathLike object, not lxml.etree.xmlfile'. Any suggestions on what I need to be doing differently to now iterate through the tags and create the folders?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.