How do I get the whole content between two xml tags in Python?

Question

I try to get the whole content between an opening xml tag and it\'s closing counterpart.

Getting the content in straight cases like title below is easy

Answer 1

Here's something that works for me and your sample:

from lxml import etree
doc = etree.XML(
"""

  
  Some text with data in it.
"""
)

def flatten(seq):
  r = []
  for item in seq:
    if isinstance(item,(str,unicode)):
      r.append(unicode(item))
    elif isinstance(item,(etree._Element,)):
      r.append(etree.tostring(item,with_tail=False))
  return u"".join(r)

print flatten(doc.xpath('/review/text/node()'))

Yields:

Some text with data in it.

The xpath selects all child nodes of the element and either renders them to unicode directly if they are a string/unicode subclass () or calls etree.tostring on it if it's an Element, with_tail=False avoids duplication of the tail.

You may need to handle other node types if they are present.