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Asked: 2026-06-14T23:03:01+00:00

I am using Python element tree to parse xml file lets say i have

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I am using Python element tree to parse xml file

lets say i have an xml file like this ..

<html>
<head>
    <title>Example page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>hello this is first paragraph </p>
    <p> hello this is second paragraph</p>
</body>
</html>

is there any way i can extract the body with the p tags intact like 

desired= "<p>hello this is first paragraph </p> <p> hello this is second paragraph</p>"
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  1. Editorial Team

    The following code does the trick.

    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

root = ET.fromstring(doc)  # doc is a string containing the example file
body = root.find('body')
desired = ' '.join([ET.tostring(c).strip() for c in body.getchildren()])

    Now:

    >>> desired
'<p>hello this is first paragraph </p> <p> hello this is second paragraph</p>'
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