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Asked: 2026-06-16T01:26:06+00:00

I have a HTML file: <html> <p>somestr <sup>1</sup> anotherstr </p> </html> I would like

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I have a HTML file:

<html>
    <p>somestr
        <sup>1</sup>
       anotherstr
    </p>
</html>

I would like to extract the text as:

somestr1anotherstr

but I can’t figure out how to do it. I have written a to_sup() function that converts numeric strings to superscript so the closest I get is something like:

for i in doc.xpath('.//p/text()|.//sup/text()'):
    if i.tag == 'sup':
        print to_sup(i),
    else:
        print i,

but I ElementStringResult doesn’t seem to have a method to get the tag name, so I am a bit lost. Any ideas how to solve it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just don’t call text() on the sup nodes in the XPath.

    for x in doc.xpath("//p/text()|//sup"):
    try:
        print(to_sup(x.text))
    except AttributeError:
        print(x)
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