xmltodict is in no way trying to compete with LXML feature-wise (no support for namespaces yet, just to name one thing). It's just a lightweight approach to rou

xmltodict is in no way trying to compete with LXML feature-wise (no support for namespaces yet, just to name one thing). It's just a lightweight approach to roundtrip between XML and JSON documents that worked for my use case and decided to share it.