Parse xml with lxml - extract element value

Question

Let\'s suppose we have the XML file with the structure as follows.

Answer 1

I would just go with

for df in doc.xpath('//datafield'):
    print df.attrib
    for sf in df.getchildren():
        print sf.text

Also you don't need urllib, you can directly parse XML with HTTP

url = "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/540963/short_test.xml"  #doesn't work with https though
doc = etree.parse(url)