Stefan Behnel wrote: > If you want to copy part of of removed element back into the tree, feel free > to do so.
and that can of course be done with a short helper function. when removing elements from trees, I often set the tag for those elements to some "garbage" value during processing, and then call something like http://effbot.org/zone/element-bits-and-pieces.htm#cleanup to clean things up before serializing the tree. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list