Using xpath to get value of a nested element name using tag named

[Larz60+]

**Note**: I named my file 'stuff.xml' change this line to your filename
You may have to install lxml if you don't already have it:

pip install lxml

and finally, I use f-string which requires python 3.6 or newer
if you have to use earlier version for some reason, change line 15 to:

            print('tag: {}, value: {}'.format(element.tag, text))

You should use lxml:

from lxml import etree
import os

def parse_xml(filename):
    os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
    with open(filename) as fp:
        xml_text = fp.read()
    tree = etree.fromstring(xml_text)

    for kid in tree.getchildren():
        for element in kid.getchildren():
            text = None
            if element.text:
                text = element.text.strip()
            print(f'tag: {element.tag}, value: {text}')


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parse_xml("stuff.xml")

output:

Output:
tag: rank, value: 1
tag: year, value: 2008
tag: gdppc, value: 141100
tag: neighbor, value: None
tag: neighbor, value: None
tag: rank, value: 4
tag: year, value: 2011
tag: gdppc, value: 59900
tag: neighbor, value: None
tag: rank, value: 68
tag: year, value: 2011
tag: gdppc, value: 13600
tag: neighbor, value: None
tag: neighbor, value: None