Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
What would you have it do in the general case, should it concatenate all the
text in:
>>> root4 = ET.fromstring('<a>abc<b>def</b>ghi</a>')
>>> root4.text
'abc'
If I'm interpreting the XML spec correctly (
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-starttags section [43]), the
optional character data must be a the beginning of the element before any other
elements, comments, or processing instructions:
content ::= CharData? ((element | Reference | CDSect | PI |
Comment) CharData?)*
In other words, I'm not sure your XML is considered well-formed.
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nosy: +rhettinger
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