If you are running under Python 3.2+, you can use itertext
.
itertext
creates a text iterator which loops over this element and all subelements, in document order, and returns all inner text:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
xml = '<tag>Some <a>example</a> text</tag>'
tree = ET.fromstring(xml)
print(''.join(tree.itertext()))
# -> 'Some example text'
If you are running in a lower version of Python, you can reuse the implementation of itertext()
by attaching it to the Element
class, after which you can call it exactly like above:
# original implementation of .itertext() for Python 2.7
def itertext(self):
tag = self.tag
if not isinstance(tag, basestring) and tag is not None:
return
if self.text:
yield self.text
for e in self:
for s in e.itertext():
yield s
if e.tail:
yield e.tail
# if necessary, monkey-patch the Element class
if 'itertext' not in ET.Element.__dict__:
ET.Element.itertext = itertext
xml = '<tag>Some <a>example</a> text</tag>'
tree = ET.fromstring(xml)
print(''.join(tree.itertext()))
# -> 'Some example text'
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