xmltodict ElasticSearch

>>> import xmltodict
>>>
>>> x = """
... <xml>
...  <group title="persons">
...  <person>John</person>
...  </group>
... </xml>
... """
>>>
>>> j1 = xmltodict.parse(x)
>>> j1
OrderedDict([(u'xml', OrderedDict([(u'group', OrderedDict([(u'@title', u'persons'), (u'person', u'John')]))]))])
>>>
>>> x = """
... <xml>
...  <group title="persons">
...   <person>John</person>
...   <person>John</person>
...  </group>
... </xml>
... """
>>>
>>> j2 = xmltodict.parse(x)
>>> j2
OrderedDict([(u'xml', OrderedDict([(u'group', OrderedDict([(u'@title', u'persons'), (u'person', [u'John', u'John'])]))]))])
>>>
>>> j1['xml']['group']['person']
u'John'
>>> j2['xml']['group']['person']
[u'John', u'John']
>>> type(j1['xml']['group']['person'])
<type 'unicode'>
>>> type(j2['xml']['group']['person'])
<type 'list'>
>>>