XML extraction example (including pictures downloading) for an epicollect project

XML.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2
import urllib
import xml.etree.ElementTree


#UPDATE
address="http://epicollectserver.appspot.com/getMapXML?projectKey=ahZzfmVwaWNvbGxlY3RzZXJ2ZXItaHJkchQLEgdQcm9qZWN0GICAgO7L-YsKDA"
Remote_XML = urllib2.urlopen(address)
Local="Local_XML.xml"
New=open(Local,"w")
New.write(Remote_XML.read())
New.close()

#READ
e = xml.etree.ElementTree.parse(Local).getroot()
print "Total records are ", len(e)
feats = []
for record in e.findall("Record"):
    rec=0
    
    for itemo in xrange(len(record)):
        print e[rec][itemo].tag
        print record[itemo].text
        if e[rec][itemo].tag=="id":
            ID=record[itemo].text        
        if e[rec][itemo].tag=="ecPhotoPath":
            
            if record[itemo].text:
                urllib.urlretrieve(record[itemo].text, ID+"_"+str(rec)+".jpg")           
    
    print "****"
    rec+=1