I'm trying to parse XML to table-like structure in Python. Imagine XML like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<base><element1>element 1</element1><element2>element 2</element2><element3><subElement3>subElement 3</subElement3></element3>
</base>

I'd like to have result like this:

KEY                       | VALUE
base.element1             | "element 1"
base.element2             | "element 2"
base.element3.subElement3 | "subElement 3"

I've tried using xml.etree.cElementTree, then functions described here How to convert an xml string to a dictionary in Python?

Is there any function that can do this? All answers I found are written for particular XML schemes and would need to be edited for each new XML scheme. For reference, in R it's easy with XML and XML2 packages and xmlToList function.

I've got the needed outcome using following script.

XML File:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<base><element1>element 1</element1><element2>element 2</element2><element3><subElement3>subElement 3</subElement3></element3>
</base>

Python code:

import pandas as pd
from lxml import etreedata = "C:/Path/test.xml"tree = etree.parse(data)lstKey = []
lstValue = []
for p in tree.iter() :lstKey.append(tree.getpath(p).replace("/",".")[1:])lstValue.append(p.text)df = pd.DataFrame({'key' : lstKey, 'value' : lstValue})
df.sort_values('key')

Result: