python - Get all text from an XML document?

Question

How can I get all the text content of an XML document, as a single string - like this Ruby/hpricot example but using Python.

I'd like to replace XML tags with a single whitespace.

Answer 1

Using stdlib xml.etree

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('sample.xml') 
print(ET.tostring(tree.getroot(), encoding='utf-8', method='text'))