I'm curious to know if anyone with ElementTree 1.3 has gotten the parent XPath to work? According to http://effbot.org/zone/element-xpath.htm, you should be able to do >>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as et >>> et.VERSION '1.3.0' ... >>> elem.find('..') >>> but that always return None for me. Has anyone else seen this particular XPath work? Am I just doing something wrong? Thanks for you help! Jason PS. In case you're wondering, yes I know that lxml supports parent points and, yes, I'm aware of http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#accessing-parents. I'm really wondering if the mentioned XPath is broken or something.