Question

I’m working in Python with HTML that looks like this. I’m parsing with lxml, but could equally happily use pyquery:

<p><span class="Title">Name</span>Dave Davies</p>
<p><span class="Title">Address</span>123 Greyfriars Road, London</p>

Pulling out ‘Name’ and ‘Address’ is dead easy, whatever library I use, but how do I get the remainder of the text – i.e. ‘Dave Davies’?

Answer 1

Each Element can have a text and a tail attribute (in the link, search for the word “tail”):

import lxml.etree

content='''\
<p><span class="Title">Name</span>Dave Davies</p>
<p><span class="Title">Address</span>123 Greyfriars Road, London</p>'''


root=lxml.etree.fromstring(content,parser=lxml.etree.HTMLParser())
for elt in root.findall('**/span'):
    print(elt.text, elt.tail)

# ('Name', 'Dave Davies')
# ('Address', '123 Greyfriars Road, London')