http://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#supported-xpath-syntax

20.5.2. XPath support

This module provides limited support for XPath expressions for locating elements in a tree. The goal is to support a small subset of the abbreviated syntax; a full XPath engine is outside the scope of the module.

What you could do is testing the values with text once you have matched all elements of your choice.

>>> import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
>>> xml = ET.fromstring("<root><h1>1</h1><p><h1>2</h1></p></root>")
>>> result = xml.findall(".//h1")
>>> for i in result:
...     print(i.text)
... 
1
2

Could you close the issue?