<conf>
	<server>
		<active name="MyName">0</active>
		<active name="MyName2">1</active>
		<scripts>
		</scripts>
	</server>
</conf>

import xml.dom.minidom

g_hostlist = {}
    
def XMLgetText(nodelist):
    rc = ""
    for node in nodelist:
        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
            rc = rc + node.data
    return rc

def LoadXMLClient():
    try:
        global g_hostlist
        document = open('s1.xml','r').read()
        dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document)
        doc = dom.getElementsByTagName("server")
        for d in doc:
            name = d.getElementsByTagName("active")
            if len(name)>0:
                if XMLgetText(name[0].childNodes)=='1':
                    iname = d.getElementsByTagName("name")
                    if len(iname)>0: name = XMLgetText(iname[0].childNodes)
                    ip = d.getElementsByTagName("ip")
                    if len(ip)>0: pp = XMLgetText(ip[0].childNodes)
                    pr = 8011
                    ip = d.getElementsByTagName("port")
                    if len(ip)>0:
                        try:
                            pr = int(XMLgetText(ip[0].childNodes))
                        except:
                            print 'Error port'
                    #print name,pp
                    g_hostlist[name] = {'ip':pp, 'port':pr}
        return 1
    except:
        print 'Error XML pars'
        return 0

In [1]: import StringIO
In [16]: conf = """
   ....: <conf>
   ....:     <server>
   ....:         <active name="MyName">0</active>
   ....:         <active name="MyName2">1</active>
   ....:         <scripts>
   ....:         </scripts>
   ....:     </server>
   ....: </conf>
   ....: """


In [18]: f = StringIO.StringIO(conf)

In [19]: from lxml import etree

In [20]: tree = etree.parse(f)

In [16]: conf = """
   ....: <conf>
   ....:     <server>
   ....:         <active name="MyName">0</active>
   ....:         <active name="MyName2">1</active>
   ....:         <scripts>
   ....:         </scripts>
   ....:     </server>
   ....: </conf>
   ....: """

In [18]: f = StringIO.StringIO(conf)

In [19]: from lxml import etree

In [20]: tree = etree.parse(f)

In [24]: tree.xpath('/conf/server/active/text()')
Out[24]: ['0', '1']

In [26]: tree.xpath('/conf/server/active/@name')
Out[26]: ['MyName', 'MyName2']