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:

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Answer 1

If all you have in your section of code is the element and you want the element's xpath do then element.getroottree().getpath(element) will do the job.

from lxml import etree

xml = '''

    
    
       
       
    

'''
tree = etree.fromstring(xml)

for element in tree.iter():
    print element.getroottree().getpath(element)