How can one replace an element with text in lxml?

Question

It\'s easy to completely remove a given element from an XML document with lxml\'s implementation of the ElementTree API, but I can\'t see an easy way of consistently replaci

Answer 1

Using ET.XSLT:

import io
import lxml.etree as ET

data = '''
Some text before 
 and some text after.

Text before  and after
 Text after a sibling  Text before a sibling

'''

f=ET.fromstring(data)
xslt='''\
        

    
    DELETED

        
    
        
            
        
    
    
        
    
    
'''

xslt_doc=ET.parse(io.BytesIO(xslt))
transform=ET.XSLT(xslt_doc)
f=transform(f)

print(ET.tostring(f))

yields

Some text before DELETED
DELETED and some text after.
DELETED
Text before DELETED and after
 Text after a sibling DELETED Text before a sibling