How to get web service sub group XML data as a list?

How to get web service sub group XML data as a list?

Sub XML elements are returning as a long strings of x = "y" in a list with
a length of 1. How can I get sub xml elements to return into a useful data
set so I don't have to write string parsing code?
Details:
I call a web service with suds as normal like this:
myWebServiceData=client.service.getMethod("P1", "P2", "P3")
It Returns a dictionary as I would like however it looks like this:
myWebServiceData = { elm1: "data1", elm2: "data2", elm3: "[(data3){ elm4 =
data4 elm5 = data5 elm6 = data6 }]
So any data under data4 is a list with a length of 1. like this:
print myWebServiceData['elm4'][0]
elm4 = data4 elm5 = data5 elm6 = data6
However my xml looks like this (as seen in my logger):
<elm1>data1</elm1>
<elm2>data2</elm2>
<elm3>
<elm4>data4</elm4>
<elm5>data5</elm5>
<elm6>data6</elm6>
</elm3>