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

This is based on the other solutions, but the other solutions did not work in my case (resulted in exceptions) and this one worked:

from xml.etree import Element, ElementTree

def inner_xml(element: Element):
    return (element.text or '') + ''.join(ElementTree.tostring(e, 'unicode') for e in element)

Use it the same way as in Mark Tolonen's answer.