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Asked: 2026-05-26T01:45:07+00:00

I have a problem getting to the right solution. I want to delete <question>

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I have a problem getting to the right solution. I want to delete <question> and its children if <answer> is = 99. As a result, I need a string with the filtered questions. I have the following html structure:

<html>
 <body>        
  <questionaire>
   <question>
    <questiontext>
     Do I have a question?
    </questiontext>
    <answer>
     99
    </answer>
   </question>
   <question>
    <questiontext>
     Do I love HTML/XML parsing?
    </questiontext>
    <questalter>
     <choice>
      1 oh god yeah
     </choice>
     <choice>
      2 that makes me feel good
     </choice>
     <choice>
      3 oh hmm noo
     </choice>
     <choice>
      4 totally
     </choice>
     </questalter>
     <answer>
      4
    </answer>
   </question>
   <question>
  </questionaire>
 </body>
</html>

So far i tried to realize it with xpath…but lxml.html has no iterparse…has it? Thanx!

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  1. Editorial Team

    This will do exactly what you need:

    from xml.dom import minidom

doc = minidom.parseString(text)
for question in doc.getElementsByTagName('question'):
    for answer in question.getElementsByTagName('answer'):
        if answer.childNodes[0].nodeValue.strip() == '99':
            question.parentNode.removeChild(question)

print doc.toxml()

    Result:

    <html>
 <body>        
  <questionaire>

   <question>
    <questiontext>
     Do I love HTML/XML parsing?
    </questiontext>
    <questalter>
     <choice>
      1 oh god yeah
     </choice>
     <choice>
      2 that makes me feel good
     </choice>
     <choice>
      3 oh hmm noo
     </choice>
     <choice>
      4 totally
     </choice>
     </questalter>
     <answer>
      4
    </answer>
   </question>
  </questionaire>
 </body>
</html>
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