xpath-1.0

XPath on lxml's iterparse matches elements outside its scope Question: I have huge corpora that I am parsing with lxml, so I am using iterparse which makes it easy to read XML on-the-fly. By using iterparse(fh, tag="your_tag") we can efficiently iterate over nodes in large files. I wish to do some XPath matching for each …

Exclude Xpath from other Xpath Question: If you have two Xpaths you can join them with the | operator to return both their results in one result set. This essentially gives back the union of the two sets of elements. The example below gives back all divs and all spans on a website: //div | …