Using Python to connect to an XML ?

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Either no o/p or the words 'None'. There is at least one dataset that should match

They are only attributes is in PAYEE tag,and no text.
Demo on how to parse those.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

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

soup = BeautifulSoup(file, 'xml')
payee = soup.find('PAYEE')

# All attributes
>>> payee.attrs
{'email': '',
 'id': 'P000031',
 'matchingenabled': '0',
 'name': 'Cash',
 'reference': ''}

# Get a singel one 
>>> payee['name']
'Cash'

# Or
>>> payee.get('name')
'Cash'