On 17 Feb 2026, at 16:31, lord of edges via lxml - The Python XML Toolkit wrote:
> Google seems to think it is a stupid question, and I don't have a reason to > need it now, but is there some way to exclude/delete elements/nodes outside > the selection from the output/document? It's not really clear what you're trying to do but, when working with HTML, it's often best to use the BeautifulSoup library. This uses lxml internally but is more expressive than working XML directly, as in your use of xpath, especially with sequence indices. Charlie -- Charlie Clark Managing Director Clark Consulting & Research German Office Sengelsweg 34 Düsseldorf D- 40489 Tel: +49-203-3925-0390 Mobile: +49-178-782-6226 _______________________________________________ lxml - The Python XML Toolkit mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/lxml.python.org Member address: [email protected]
