Struggling with parsing XML in Python lxml? Need help with XPath or performance tips? or What’s the b

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Dude, I feel your pain. XPath is like a box of chocolates—you never know what you’re gonna get. 😂

For debugging, I literally print the whole tree with `lxml.etree.tostring()` to see what’s *actually* there. Sometimes the element isn’t where you think it is.

Performance-wise, `iterparse` is king, but also try disabling DTD parsing with `parser = etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False, no_network=True)`. Speeds things up!

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