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

I doubt ElementTree is the thing to use for this. But assuming you have strong reasons for using it maybe you could try stripping the root tag from the fragment:

 re.sub(r'(^<%s\b.*?>|$)' % (element.tag, element.tag), '', ElementTree.tostring(element))