Get the inner HTML of a element in lxml

Question

I am trying to get the HTML content of child node with lxml and xpath in Python. As shown in code below, I want to find the html content of the each of product nodes. Does i

Answer 1

Simple function to get innerHTML or innerXML
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Try it out directly https://pyfiddle.io/fiddle/631aa049-2785-4c58-bf82-eff4e2f8bedb/
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function

def innerXML(elem):
    elemName = elem.xpath('name(/*)')
    resultStr = ''
    for e in elem.xpath('/'+ elemName + '/node()'):
        if(isinstance(e, str) ):
            resultStr = resultStr + ''
        else:
            resultStr = resultStr + etree.tostring(e, encoding='unicode')

    return resultStr

invocation

XMLElem = etree.fromstring("
I amJhon  Corner.I work as software engineer.
")
print(innerXML(XMLElem))

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Logic Behind

• get the outermost element name first,
• Then get all the child nodes
• Convert all the child nodes to string using tostring
• Concatinate Them