"""Utility for converting XML nodes to their inner string representation."""
from lxml import etree
def stringify_children(node):
"""
Return all contents of an xml tree, without the outside tags.
e.g. if node is parse of
"Hi there Bruce!
"
should return
"Hi there Bruce!
"
fixed from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4624062/get-all-text-inside-a-tag-in-lxml
"""
# Useful things to know:
# node.tostring() -- generates xml for the node, including start
# and end tags. We'll use this for the children.
# node.text -- the text after the end of a start tag to the start
# of the first child
# node.tail -- the text after the end this tag to the start of the
# next element.
parts = [node.text]
for c in node.getchildren():
parts.append(etree.tostring(c, with_tail=True, encoding="unicode"))
# filter removes possible Nones in texts and tails
return "".join([part for part in parts if part])