[Zope] extract elements from xml-documents

I have tons of framemaker-documents converted to xml from which i would like to extract information inside certain elements. a portion of the document (english.xml)would typically look like this: <emne> <a href="#44332"></a> HF2345 </emne> what i would like to extract in two separate strings is: "44332" and "HF2345" How is this best accomplished? the document does not reside inside zope but is located on another webserver. Thank you all in advance! Einar -- http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~einjen/ http://vader.hf.ntnu.no/ Einar Næss Jensen tlf:90990249/73526716