Easy way to get data between tags of xml or html files in python?

Question

I am using Python and need to find and retrieve all character data between tags:

I need this stuff

I then want to output

Answer 1

I quite like parsing into element tree and then using element.text and element.tail.

It also has xpath like searching

>>> from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
>>> tree = ElementTree()
>>> tree.parse("index.xhtml")

>>> p = tree.find("body/p")     # Finds first occurrence of tag p in body
>>> p

>>> p.text
"Some text in the Paragraph"
>>> links = p.getiterator("a")  # Returns list of all links
>>> links
[, ]
>>> for i in links:             # Iterates through all found links
...     i.attrib["target"] = "blank"
>>> tree.write("output.xhtml")