Tim Arnold schrieb: > Hi, > Using lxml to clean up auto-generated xml to validate against a dtd; I need > to remove an element tag but keep the text in order. For example > s0 = ''' > <option> > <optional> first text > <someelement>ladida</someelement> > <emphasis>emphasized text</emphasis> > middle text > <anotherelement/> > last text > </optional> > </option>''' > > I want to get rid of the <emphasis> tag but keep everything else as it is; > that is, I need this result: > > <option> > <optional> first text > <someelement>ladida</someelement> > emphasized text > middle text > <anotherelement/> > last text > </optional> > </option>
There's a drop_tag() method in lxml.html (lxml/html/__init__.py) that does what you want. Just copy the code over to your code base and adapt it as needed. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
