Robin Becker wrote at 2022-3-3 09:21 +0000: >On 02/03/2022 18:39, Dieter Maurer wrote: >> Robin Becker wrote at 2022-3-2 15:32 +0000: >>> I'm using lxml.etree.XMLParser and would like to distinguish >>> >>> <tag></tag> >>> >>> from >>> >>> <tag/> >>> >>> I seem to have e.getchildren()==[] and e.text==None for both cases. Is >>> there a way to get the first to have e.text=='' >> >> I do not think so (at least not without a DTD): > >I have a DTD which has > ><!ELEMENT tag (content)*> > >so I guess the empty case is allowed as well as the self closed.
Potentially, something changes when `content` contains `PCDATA` (as one possibility) (but I doubt it). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
