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Roopali Bansal
Roopali Bansal

Reputation: 673

Lxml: Return a part of the xml file as string

I am parsing my xml file using lxml parser which looks like this:

    # some elements above
    <contact>
       <phonenumber>
            #something
       </phonenumber>
    </contact>

I want to be able to return only a part of the xml file.

Like Suppose if I am on phonenumber, I want lxml to return the everything between as a string .

I dont want to return textb/w phonenumber but the entire string :

    <phonenumebr>something</phonenumber>

Is it possible ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2032

Answers (1)

Lev Levitsky
Lev Levitsky

Reputation: 65791

To print a part of the XML tree, you can use lxml.etree.tostring. On Python 2:

In [1]: from lxml.etree import tostring, parse

In [2]: tree = parse('test.xml')

In [3]: elem = tree.xpath('//phonenumber')[0]

In [4]: print tostring(elem)
<phonenumber>
            something
       </phonenumber>

For more information you can refer to the "Serialisation" section of the lxml tutorial.

Upvotes: 1

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