In lxml, how do I remove a tag but retain all contents?

Question

The problem is this: I have an XML fragment like so:

text1 inner1 text2 inner2 text3         


        

Answer 1

Try this: http://lxml.de/api/lxml.etree-module.html#strip_tags

>>> etree.strip_tags(fragment,'a','c')
>>> etree.tostring(fragment)
'text1 inner1 text2 inner2 text3'