django parse xml with template

Question

I'm looking to create a dynamic way to parse xml files and convert them into a different format as easy as possible..

Here is my fixture.xml

<Orders>
      <Order number="" queue="true" getTax="true">
            <Customer>
                  <Email><![CDATA[[email protected]]]></Email>
            </Customer>
      </Order>
</Orders>

I'm using the following code

try:
    import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
except ImportError:
    import xml.etree.ElementTree  as ET



class XMLTree(object):
    def __init__(self, node):
        self.nodes = {}
        self.node = node
        for n in node:
            if len(n.getchildren()):
                xmlnode = XMLTree(n)
            else:
                xmlnode = XMLNode(n)
            if n.tag in self.nodes:
                if isinstance(self.nodes[n.tag], (XMLTree, XMLNode)):
                    self.nodes[n.tag] = [self.nodes[n.tag], xmlnode]
                else:
                    self.nodes[n.tag].append(xmlnode)
            else:
                self.nodes[n.tag] = xmlnode

    def __unicode__(self):
        return unicode(dict((k, str(v)) for k, v in self.nodes.iteritems()))

    def __str__(self):
        return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')

    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        return self.nodes[attr]

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return self.node.attrib.get(key)

    def __len__(self):
        return len(self.nodes)

    def items(self):
        return self.nodes

class XMLNode(object):
    def __init__(self, node):
        self.node = node

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        return self.node.attrib.get(key)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.node.text or ''

    def __str__(self):
        return unicode(self).encode('utf-8')

    def __repr__(self):
        return self.__unicode__()

    def __len__(self):
        return 1


def order_taxcalc(request):
    tree = ET.parse("/tmp/fixture.xml")
    xml = XMLTree(tree.getroot())


    print "Email: ", xml.Order.Customer.Email
    omxXML = render_to_string("endpoints/order.html", {'xml': xml})
    return HttpResponse(omxXML)

Now I get the correct email in console.. but here is my order.html stripped down

<Email>{{xml.Order.Customer.Email}}</Email>

Nothing is displayed. I hope it makes since with what I am trying to do.

Thanks!