:return: an ElementTree initialized with the parsed element.
    :see: get_element(parent_to_parse, element_path)

def get_element_tree(parent_to_parse):
    """
    :return: an ElementTree initialized with the parsed element.
    :see: get_element(parent_to_parse, element_path)
    """

    if isinstance(parent_to_parse, ElementTree):
        return parent_to_parse

    element = get_element(parent_to_parse)

    return ElementTree() if element is None else ElementTree(element)