Incredibly basic lxml questions: getting HTML/string content of lxml.etree._Element?
Question:
This is such a basic question that I actually can’t find it in the docs :-/
In the following:
img = house_tree.xpath('//img[@id="mainphoto"]')[0]
How do I get the HTML of the <img/> tag?
I’ve tried adding html_content() but get AttributeError: 'lxml.etree._Element' object has no attribute 'html_content'.
Also, it was a tag with some content inside (e.g. <p>text</p>) how would I get the content (e.g. text)?
Many thanks!
Answers:
I suppose it will be as simple as:
from lxml.etree import tostring
inner_html = tostring(img)
As for getting content from inside <p>, say, some selected element el:
content = el.text_content()
This is such a basic question that I actually can’t find it in the docs :-/
In the following:
img = house_tree.xpath('//img[@id="mainphoto"]')[0]
How do I get the HTML of the <img/> tag?
I’ve tried adding html_content() but get AttributeError: 'lxml.etree._Element' object has no attribute 'html_content'.
Also, it was a tag with some content inside (e.g. <p>text</p>) how would I get the content (e.g. text)?
Many thanks!
I suppose it will be as simple as:
from lxml.etree import tostring
inner_html = tostring(img)
As for getting content from inside <p>, say, some selected element el:
content = el.text_content()