import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree tree = etree.parse('feed.xml') root = tree.getroot() print(root.tag) print(len(root)) for child in root: print(child) print(root.attrib) print(root.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry')) print(tree.findall('//{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}author'))