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Created January 25, 2011 20:22

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  1. jacobian created this gist Jan 25, 2011.
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    def elem2dict(node):
    """
    Convert an lxml.etree node tree into a dict.
    """
    d = {}
    for e in node.iterchildren():
    key = e.tag.split('}')[1] if '}' in e.tag else e.tag
    value = e.text if e.text else elem2dict(e)
    d[key] = value
    return d