From 283e3ee6aa5db3012a118cd300bf3b6f9388c2ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Shriwise <pshriwise@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 22:51:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Adjust the read_meshes function to search only for mesh
 elements directly below the element passed in

---
 openmc/mesh.py     | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 openmc/settings.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/openmc/mesh.py b/openmc/mesh.py
index a3452b8462..b2114525fc 100644
--- a/openmc/mesh.py
+++ b/openmc/mesh.py
@@ -1940,12 +1940,22 @@ class UnstructuredMesh(MeshBase):
         return cls(filename, library, mesh_id, '', length_multiplier)
 
 
-def read_meshes(tree):
-    """Reads all mesh nodes under an XML tree
+def read_meshes(elem):
+    """Reads all mesh nodes under a a given XML node
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    elem : xml.etree.ElementTree.Element
+        XML element
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    OrderedDict
+        An ordered dictionary with mesh IDs as keys and openmc.MeshBase
+        instanaces as values
     """
     out = OrderedDict()
-    root = tree.getroot()
-    for mesh_elem in root.iter('mesh'):
+    for mesh_elem in elem.findall('mesh'):
         mesh = MeshBase.from_xml_element(mesh_elem)
         out[mesh.id] = mesh
 
diff --git a/openmc/settings.py b/openmc/settings.py
index a219f8aa22..ff35a90cfb 100644
--- a/openmc/settings.py
+++ b/openmc/settings.py
@@ -1762,5 +1762,5 @@ class Settings:
         """
         tree = ET.parse(path)
         root = tree.getroot()
-        meshes = read_meshes(tree)
+        meshes = read_meshes(root)
         return cls.from_xml_element(root, meshes)