I have to parse XML that has tag names that may be in any case (mixed, upper, lower, etc) and I don\'t know what the case will be beforehand. How can I make findall be total
You simply get the string from the tree, lowercase it, and remake the tree. Then it should be parseable
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET def to_parseable(tree): t = ET.tostring(tree) t = t.lower() return ET.fromstring(t)