Why is XML parsing not working?

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Hi, I’m new here. I’m having trouble parsing an XML file, like the one shown in the example. I’ve already looked at the documentation, but I think I don’t really understand how it works.

<result id="some-id">
  <name>some name</name>
  <owner>
    <name>some admin</name>
  </owner>
  <modification_time>2000-06-12T13:27:15Z</modification_time>
  <comment/>
  <creation_time>2000-06-12T13:27:15Z</creation_time>
  <detection>
    <result id="another-id">
      <details>
        <detail>
          <name>product</name>
          <value>some value</value>
        </detail>
        <detail>
          <name>location</name>
          <value>80/tcp</value>
        </detail>
        <detail>
          <name>source_oid</name>
          <value>null</value>
        </detail>
        <detail>
          <name>source_name</name>
          <value>another value</value>
        </detail>
      </details>
    </result>
  </detection>
</result>

Is it a problem if there are tags with the same name nested (not directly, but as children of children)?
Many thanks

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I don’t understand the question.
Does it not parse correctly?
AFAIK xml gets parsed into a list of dictionaries,
so it creates a list of tag dicts, each containing the tag name, and a list of children, which is in turn the same. this means that you can have many same named tags, as the dictionaries are self contained.

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Hi @not_raffa, could you maybe try to revise your post’s title to be a complete question as per the question guidelines:

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