Question

I need to remove all <p></p> that are only <p>‘s in <td>.
But how it can be done?

import re
text = """
    <td><p>111</p></td>
    <td><p>111</p><p>222</p></td>
    """
text = re.sub(r'<td><p>(??no</p>inside??)</p></td>', r'<td>\1</td>', text)

How can I match without</p>inside?

Answer 1

I would use minidom. I stole the following snippet from here which you should be able to modify and work for you:

from xml.dom import minidom

doc = minidom.parse(myXmlFile)
for element in doc.getElementsByTagName('MyElementName'):
    if element.getAttribute('name') in ['AttrName1', 'AttrName2']:
        parentNode = element.parentNode
        parentNode.insertBefore(doc.createComment(element.toxml()), element)
        parentNode.removeChild(element)
f = open(myXmlFile, "w")
f.write(doc.toxml())
f.close()

Thanks @Ivo Bosticky