Handling Mixed Content in XML Parsing with ElementTree - Unexpected Empty Text Nodes in Python
This might be a silly question, but I'm wondering if anyone has experience with I'm currently using Python's `xml.etree.ElementTree` library to parse an XML file that contains mixed content, but I'm working with an scenario where some expected text nodes are returned as empty strings. For example, given the following XML snippet: ```xml <root> <item> Some text <bold>bold text</bold> more text. </item> </root> ``` When I run the following code: ```python import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET xml_data = '''<root> <item> Some text <bold>bold text</bold> more text. </item> </root>''' root = ET.fromstring(xml_data) for item in root.findall('item'): print('Text:', item.text) for elem in item: print('Element:', elem.tag, 'Text:', elem.text) print('Tail:', elem.tail) ``` I expected to see the text before and after the `bold` element, but the output shows: ``` Text: None Element: bold Text: bold text Tail: more text. ``` The `item.text` returns `None` instead of the actual text content. I have tried using `item.text.strip()` and checking various combinations of `item.text` and `elem.tail`, but I need to seem to retrieve the initial text content properly. I am using Python 3.9. What am I doing wrong here? Is this a limitation of `ElementTree`, or is there a better way to handle mixed content in `ElementTree`? Any advice on getting the correct text output would be much appreciated.