from lxml import etree
doc = etree.parse(filename)
memoryElem = doc.find('memory')
print memoryElem.text # element text
print memoryElem.get('unit') # attribute
from xml.dom import minidom
xmldoc = minidom.parse('items.xml')
itemlist = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('item')
print "Len : ", len(itemlist)
print "Attribute Name : ", itemlist[0].attributes['name'].value
print "Text : ", itemlist[0].firstChild.nodeValue
for s in itemlist :
print "Attribute Name : ", s.attributes['name'].value
print "Text : ", s.firstChild.nodeValue
import xml.dom.minidom as minidom
doc = minidom.parse(filename)
memoryElem = doc.getElementsByTagName('memory')[0]
print ''.join( [node.data for node in memoryElem.childNodes] )
print memoryElem.getAttribute('unit')