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How do I get from this XML file using lxml library in Python?

I couldn't find the proper XPATH to get the tags.

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You need to handle namespaces (and an empty one too):

namespaces = { "dc":"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/", "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#", "rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#", "svg": "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg", "myns": "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" } tree = ET.fromstring(data) for rect in tree.xpath("//myns:rect", namespaces=namespaces): print rect.attrib.get("id")

where data is an XML string you've provided.

For testing purposes it just prints rect element id attributes:

rect3347 rect3349 rect3351 rect3351-1 rect3351-17 rect3351-1-4 rect3397 rect3399 rect3401 rect3403
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