Hi,
James Sulak wrote:
> Thanks, Stefan, for pointing me to lxml. It looks like a good
> alternative to SAX in this situation. However, I'm a little confused
> as to the best way to remove elements from the tree while keeping
> their tail text. This is what I have so far:
>
> context = etree.iterparse("test.xml")
>
> for event, element in context:
> for title in element.xpath("child::title"):
it's likely faster to use
for title in element.iterchildren("title"):
here.
> element.remove(title)
>
> Do I need to explicitly assign the tail text to either the parent or
> the preceding sibling?
Yes, the tail text is part of the Element object. Take a look at the
"drop_tree" and "drop_tag" methods in lxml.html.
http://codespeak.net/svn/lxml/trunk/src/lxml/html/__init__.py
Stefan
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