import lxml.etree
rootF = lxml.etree.fromstring('''<favourites><favourite src="cat.jpg" />Picture of a cat</favourites>''')
for elements in rootF.iter('favourite'): #iterate through each element
print "src:", elements.attrib.get('src')
print "tail:", elements.tail
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