Handling XML with Mixed Content in Python - advanced patterns with ElementTree
I can't seem to get I've been struggling with this for a few days now and could really use some help. I'm working on parsing an XML file that contains mixed content using Python's ElementTree, but I'm working with unexpected behavior when trying to retrieve text nodes interspersed with child elements. The XML structure I'm dealing with looks something like this: ```xml <root> <item>Some text <subitem>More text</subitem> and more text</item> </root> ``` When I try to extract the text content from the `<item>` element, I expect to get a concatenated string of all text nodes, but instead, I get only the text before the first child element. Here's the code I’m using: ```python import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET tree = ET.parse('file.xml') root = tree.getroot() for item in root.findall('item'): print(item.text) ``` This outputs `Some text`, and I need to figure out how to include the text after the `<subitem>`. I've tried using `item.text + ''.join(ET.tostring(subitem, encoding='unicode') for subitem in item)` but that hasn’t worked as expected, since `ET.tostring()` gives me the entire element again, not just the text. I've also looked into using `item.itertext()` to get all text nodes, but it returns a generator, and I’m unsure how to handle that properly. Can anyone suggest a reliable way to concatenate all the text from the `<item>` element, including both text nodes and text within child elements? This is part of a larger API I'm building. I'm on Linux using the latest version of Python. Any feedback is welcome!