Element Based XML Parising

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Published on 2010-06-17T04:40:40Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 4:43 UTC
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I have an XML document which reads like this:

<xml>
<web:Web>
<web:Total>4000</web:Total>
<web:Offset>0</web:Offset>
</web:Web>
</xml>

my question is how do I access them using a library like BeautifulSoup in python?

xmlDom.web["Web"].Total ? does not work?

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