I have a .xml in string format xmlString which looks like below <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2004/tom"> <id>urn:contentItem:7WBG-8H88-Y898-B277-00000-00-1</id> <title>Dinn-Pixie Stares, Inc</title> <published>2015-12-24T00:00:00Z</published> <updated>2023-10-24T18:42:17Z</updated> <author> <name>AlphaNext</name> </author> <content type="application/xml"> <baseRelatedDoc xmlns="" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2012/XMLSchema" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.alphanext.com/xmlscemas/content/public/caseddoc/1/" documentType="socket"> <baseRelatedDocHead> <baseInfo> <portInfo> <identifier idType="portIdentifier">100027579</identifier> <portName>United States Port, Minnesota Middle</portName> <jurisdiction> <jurisSystem/> </jurisdiction> </portInfo> <date dateType="filed" year="2015" month="02" day="21">2015-02-21</date> <classification classificationScheme="baseType"> <classificationItem> <classCode>BK</classCode> <className>Tankruptcy</className> </classificationItem> </classification> <classification classificationScheme="baseNos"> <classificationItem> <classCode>0</classCode> <className>UNKNOWN</className> </classificationItem> </classification> </baseInfo> <baseSupplement> <label>US Tankruptcy Port Socket</label> <date dateType="updated" year="2024" month="09" day="13">2024-07-11T15:08:26.450</date> <status>Unknown</status> </baseSupplement> <baseName>Dinn-Pixie Stares, Inc</baseName> </baseRelatedDocHead> <baseRelatedDocBody> <socket/> </baseRelatedDocBody> <metadata> <dc:metadata xmlns:dc="http://purrel.org/dc/element/1.2/"> <dc:source sourceScheme="productContentSetIdentifier">343392</dc:source> <dc:creator>US Tankruptcy Port for the Last Town of Minnesota</dc:creator> <dc:identifier identifierScheme="PGIID">urn:contentItem:8WBG-8H70-Y892-B237-00000-00</dc:identifier> <dc:date dateType="last-updated">2024-07-11</dc:date> </dc:metadata> </metadata> </baseRelatedDoc> </content> </entry> I need to extract value of the field like baseName, portName, title, classCode,dc:creator . However when i am trying to extract them using y=tree.findall('baseName') where tree = ET.fromstring(xmlString)) but y comes out as an empty list. I get the same empty list when i tried for nodes like portName, dc:creator . How do i extract the value of these nodes/field? Continue reading...