Question

That is, all text and subtags, without the tag of an element itself?

Having

<p>blah <b>bleh</b> blih</p> 

I want

blah <b>bleh</b> blih 

element.text returns ‘blah ‘ and etree.tostring(element) returns:

<p>blah <b>bleh</b> blih</p> 

Answer 1

This is the solution I ended up using:

def element_to_string(element):     s = element.text or ''     for sub_element in element:         s += etree.tostring(sub_element)     s += element.tail     return s