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How to get plain text inside any XML tag. This code is explained at https://pgbase.blogspot.in/2017/08/how-to-get-plain-text-inside-any-xml.html
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get_plaintext.py
try:
import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
except ImportError:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
def get_plaintext(elem):
inner_plaintext = ''
text_iterator = elem.itertext()
for text in text_iterator:
inner_plaintext = inner_plaintext + text
return inner_plaintext
xml_string = "<tag>Some <a>example</a> text</tag>"
root = ET.fromstring(xml_string)
print get_plaintext(root)
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