Parse xml to list of dict

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def parse_xml(series: pd.Series) -> list:
    """Input: xml, Returns list of dict"""

    xml = series.replace('">', '">\n')
    soup = BeautifulSoup(xml, features="xml")

    # returns list of all items within node
    values = [i.text.split("\n") for i in soup.find_all("node")] # replace "node" with relevent one

    stack = []
    for lst in values:
        items = {
            "item": lst[1],  # change to keys and index to suit
            "length": lst[2],
            "width": lst[3],
            "height": lst[4],
            "quantity": lst[5],
            "height_band": lst[6],
            "eng_factor": lst[7],
            "m2_calc": lst[9]
        }
        stack.append(items)
    return stack

# how to apply to series
df["parsed_xml"] = df["parsed_xml"].apply(parse_xml)