Equivalent to InnerHTML when using lxml.html to parse HTML

Question

I\'m working on a script using lxml.html to parse web pages. I have done a fair bit of BeautifulSoup in my time but am now experimenting with lxml due to its speed.

Answer 1

Sorry for bringing this up again, but I've been looking for a solution and yours contains a bug:

This text is ignored
Title
Some text

Text directly under the root element is ignored. I ended up doing this:

(body.text or '') +\
''.join([html.tostring(child) for child in body.iterchildren()])