Extracts a dictionary of values from the XML file at the specified path.

def parse(self, path):
        """Extracts a dictionary of values from the XML file at the specified path."""
        #Load the template that will be used for parsing the values.
        expath, template, root = self._load_template(path)
        if expath is not None:
            values = template.parse(root)

        return (values, template)