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Simple gist to demonstrate how to use lxml to find elements within an XML string with xpath expressions.
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xml_xpath.py
#!/bin/python3
from lxml import etree
from StringIO import StringIO
parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
f = StringIO('<foo><bar>test</bar></foo>')
tree = etree.parse(f, parser)
elem = tree.xpath('/foo/bar')
print (elem[0].text)
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