"Stefan Behnel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 Thanks Stefan, I was going crazy with this. That method is going to be quite useful for my project and it's good to learn from too; I was making it too hard.
thanks, --Tim Arnold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
