How do I get the full XML or HTML content of an element using ElementTree?

Question

That is, all text and subtags, without the tag of an element itself?

Having

blah bleh blih

I

Answer 1

This is the solution I ended up using:

def element_to_string(element):
    s = element.text or ""
    for sub_element in element:
        s += etree.tostring(sub_element)
    s += element.tail
    return s