gistfile1.txt

akesterson@ATLPTLBS3TWW1 ~/source/xml2json
$ ./xml2json.py -t xml2json test.xml |\
    head -n 1 |\
    python -c 'import dpath.util; import json; import sys; print json.dumps(dpath.util.search(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), "/ListHostedZonesResponse/HostedZones/HostedZone/[0-3]/Id"), indent=4, sort_keys=True)' 2>&1
{
    "ListHostedZonesResponse": {
        "HostedZones": {
            "HostedZone": [
                {
                    "Id": "/hostedzone/ZM0TA3Q0DI8S1"
                },
                {
                    "Id": "/hostedzone/Z1QX71FAUAMBX9"
                },
                {
                    "Id": "/hostedzone/Z4GTY66H44QQX"
                },
                {
                    "Id": "/hostedzone/Z3UK1H1B3VCNOX"
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}