[b]"Best way to parse XML in Python? Need help with 'python parse xml'!"[/b] or [b]"Struggling to parse XML files

If you’re just extracting data, `lxml` + XPath is a game-changer.

Example:
```python
from lxml import etree
tree = etree.parse('file.xml')
result = tree.xpath('//tag/text()')
```

Way cleaner than looping through nodes manually.

For small files, `ElementTree` is perfect.

But if you’re doing a lot of parsing, `lxml`’s performance is worth the setup.

Don’t forget to handle exceptions—malformed XML will crash your script otherwise.