parsing nested unbounded XML fields with ElementTree

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Larry.Martell at gmail.com
<Larry.Martell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an XML file that has an element called "Node". These can be nested to any depth and the depth of the nesting is not known to me. I need to parse the file and preserve the nesting. For exmaple, if the XML file had:
>
> <Node Name="A">
>    <Node Name="B">
>       <Node Name="C">
>         <Node Name="D">
>           <Node Name="E">

First off, please clarify: Are there five corresponding </Node> tags
later on? If not, it's not XML, and nesting will have to be defined
some other way.

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ChrisA