I have the following XML in a string named 'xml':

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<Book>
  <Page>
    <Text>Blah</Text>
  </Page>
</Book>

I'm trying to get the value Blah out of it but I'm having trouble with xml.etree.cElementTree. I've tried the find() and findtext() methods but nothing. Eventually I did this:

import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
...
root = ET.fromstring(xml)
element = root.getchildren()[0].getchildren()[0]

Element now equals the element, which is what I want (for this solution anyway), but how do I get the inner text from it? element.text does not work. Any ideas?

PS: I am using Python 2.5 atm.

As an extra question: what is a better way to parse xml strings in python?