import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET from bs4 import BeautifulSoup def open_file(file_path): with open(file_path, 'r') as f: data = f.read() Bs_data = BeautifulSoup(data, "xml") b_unique = Bs_data.find_all('unique') print(b_unique) b_name = Bs_data.find('child', {'name':'Frank'}) print(b_name) value = b_name.get('test') print(value) open_file("C:/Users/jze9/Documents/work/git/kadastr12/test/MapPlanTerritory_E2DF5B75-E136-48DA-BB4C-8887BA4ABF46.xml")