Potential GMail bug causes exporting to XML not working with category action rules, workaround needed about gmailctl HOT 2 CLOSED

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

# Load your XML document
xml_string = """
<root>
    <entry>
        <tag>keep</tag>
        <other>data</other>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <tag>remove</tag>
        <other>data</other>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <tag>keep</tag>
        <other>data</other>
    </entry>
</root>
"""

# Parse the XML string into an ElementTree
root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)

# Specify the tag to remove
tag_to_remove = "remove"

# Find and remove elements with the specified tag
for entry in root.findall('.//entry'):
    tag_element = entry.find('./tag')
    if tag_element is not None and tag_element.text == tag_to_remove:
        root.remove(entry)

# Convert the modified XML tree back to a string
filtered_xml = ET.tostring(root).decode()

# Print the filtered XML
print(filtered_xml)