XML Stuff

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

theStr = '<names><name pos="1">A</name><name pos="2">B</name></names>'

root = ET.fromstring(theStr)

>>> for child in root:

... print child.tag, child.attrib, child.text

...

name {'pos': '1'} A

name {'pos': '2'} B

>>> for child in root.findall('name'):

... print child.text

...

A

B