'passes a file and extracts its Phylogeny Tree content.'

def parseFile(self, filePath):

    phyloXmlFile = open(filePath, 'r')
    xmlTree = ElementTree.parse(phyloXmlFile)
    xmlRoot = xmlTree.getroot()[0]
    self.nameSpaceIndex = (xmlRoot.tag.rfind('}') + 1)
    phyloRoot = None
    for child in xmlRoot:
        childTag = self.cleanTag(child.tag)
        if (childTag == 'clade'):
            phyloRoot = child
        elif (childTag == 'name'):
            self.phyloTree.title = child.text
    self.phyloTree.root = self.parseNode(phyloRoot, 0)
    jsonDict = self.phyloTree.generateJsonableDict()
    return ([jsonDict], 'Success')
