import urllib
from xml.dom import minidom
url = 'http://cell.electrostallion.com/images/sample.xml'
doc = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen(url))
S = []
for a in doc.childNodes:
for b in a.childNodes:
if b.nodeName == "samples":
for c in b.childNodes:
if c.nodeName == "sample":
x = float(c.childNodes[3].firstChild.data)
y = float(c.childNodes[1].firstChild.data)
S.append((x,y))
Sp = list_plot(S,rgbcolor=(.5,.5,.5))
show (Sp, figsize=[10,5])