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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    obsapi: helper module
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    This module contains helper functions
+
+
+    :copyright: Copyright (c) 2020 Scott Bahling, SUSE Linux GmbH
+    :license: GPL-2.0, see COPYING for details
+"""
+from io import BytesIO
+from lxml import etree
+
+
+def xml2etree(xml):
+    try:
+        if not isinstance(xml, bytes):
+            xml = xml.encode('utf-8')
+        parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
+        return etree.parse(BytesIO(xml), parser).xpath('.')[0]
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise e