Python and ElementTree: return “inner XML” excluding parent element

Question

In Python 2.6 using ElementTree, what\'s a good way to fetch the XML (as a string) inside a particular element, like what you can do in HTML and javascript with innerHTML? <

Answer 1

How about:

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET

xml = 'start heresome texthereandhere as wellend here'
root = ET.fromstring(xml)

def content(tag):
    return tag.text + ''.join(ET.tostring(e) for e in tag)

print content(root)
print content(root.find('child2'))

Resulting in:

start heresome texthereandhere as wellend here
here as well