How to get path of an element in lxml?

Question

I\'m searching in a HTML document using XPath from lxml in python. How can I get the path to a certain element? Here\'s the example from ruby nokogiri:

page.         


        

Answer 1

Use getpath from ElementTree objects.

from lxml import etree
    
root = etree.fromstring('''
    Datadata
    data
    ''')
    
tree = etree.ElementTree(root)
for e in root.iter():
    print(tree.getpath(e))

Prints

/foo
/foo/bar[1]
/foo/bar[2]
/foo/bar[2]/baz[1]
/foo/bar[2]/baz[2]