Reading powershell clixml in python

Question

I have an XML file that was written from a powershell "Export-Clixml" call and it appears quite strange to me.

Here's a very simple sample:

PS C:\> Get-Date | Export-Clixml sample.xml
PS C:\> cat .\sample.xml
<Objs Version="1.1.0.1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/2004/04">
  <Obj RefId="0">
    <DT>2018-03-21T08:05:39.5085956-04:00</DT>
    <MS>
      <Obj N="DisplayHint" RefId="1">
        <TN RefId="0">
          <T>Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.DisplayHintType</T>
          <T>System.Enum</T>
          <T>System.ValueType</T>
          <T>System.Object</T>
        </TN>
        <ToString>DateTime</ToString>
        <I32>2</I32>
      </Obj>
    </MS>
  </Obj>
</Objs>

How are you supposed to parse these "Objs" and "MS" and "TN" and the rest of it? I need something that can reliably read this in python. Does anyone have a way to do this?

ConvertTo-Xml has an output like this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Objects>
  <Object Type="System.Collections.Hashtable">
    <Property Name="Key" Type="System.String">someKey</Property>
    <Property Name="Value" Type="System.String">value</Property>
    <Property Name="Key" Type="System.String">otherKey</Property>
    <Property Name="Value" Type="System.String">otherValue</Property>
  </Object>
</Objects>

So there's no way to tell which "key" goes with which "value" other than the position.