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Parse Json or Xml with python and return a signle value
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Parse XML file and return a node text value

elementValue=`cat somefile.xml | python -c 'import sys, xml.etree.cElementTree as et;\
 tree = et.parse(sys.stdin); print tree.find("elementValue").text'`
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