Handling Mixed Content in XML with Python's lxml - advanced patterns with Element Text
I'm attempting to set up Quick question that's been bugging me - I'm working with an scenario when parsing an XML document that contains mixed content using Python's lxml library. The XML structure has both text nodes and child elements within the same parent node, and I'm not getting the output I expect when I try to extract data. For example, consider the following XML: ```xml <item> This is some text <subitem>with a child element</subitem> and more text. </item> ``` When I use the following code to parse and extract the content: ```python from lxml import etree xml_data = '''<item>This is some text <subitem>with a child element</subitem> and more text.</item>''' tree = etree.fromstring(xml_data) item_text = tree.text subitem_text = tree.find('.//subitem').text print(item_text, subitem_text) ``` I get the output: `None with a child element`. I expected to receive `This is some text with a child element` instead. I've tried using `etree.tostring()` with different parameters but still need to combine the text and child elements effectively. Is there a way to retrieve the full text content including both the text nodes and the child elements with lxml? I've looked into using XPath queries but haven't been successful. Any insights on best practices for handling mixed content in lxml would be greatly appreciated. I'm on Python 3.10 and lxml version 4.6.3. My development environment is Ubuntu. What am I doing wrong? For context: I'm using Python on Windows 10. For context: I'm using Python on Windows 10. Hoping someone can shed some light on this.