XML DOM, but in chunks

I have some very large XML files that are basically recordsets. I
would like to access each record, one-at-a-time, and I particularly
like the ElementTree library for accessing the data. Is there a way
to have ElementTree read only one record of the data at a time?
Alternatively, are there other ways that would allow one to parse out
a record at a time and maintain some nice ways of accessing the
elements within the record?

Thanks,
Sean

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