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 answer is slightly modified of Pupeno's reply. Here I added encoding type into "tostring". This issue took many hours of mine. I hope this small correction will help others.

def element_to_string(element):
        s = element.text or ""
        for sub_element in element:
            s += ElementTree.tostring(sub_element, encoding='unicode')
        s += element.tail
        return s