BeautifulSoup: parse children by tag name

I have xml with coordinates like this:

<geo>
 <lat>52.5025100</lat>
 <lng>13.3086000</lng>
</geo>

      

        
        
        
      

    

I can parse the string of the first and second children (which are stored in the list) like this:

child_1=soup.find('geo').contents[1].get_text(strip=True)
child_2=soup.find('geo').contents[3].get_text(strip=True)

      

        
        
        
      

    

Suppose I need to process multiple files and I'm not sure if lat and long always appear in the above order, indexing won't work because it's not reliable. Instead, I would like to parse lat and long with their tag names as children geo

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This does not work:

child_1=soup.find('geo').contents('lat').get_text(strip=True)

      

        
        
        
      

    

So how could I achieve this?

Note : lat

and long

appear several times in the document. Therefore, I cannot parse the document directly for lat

andlong