lxml.etree, element.text doesn't return the entire text from an element

Question

I scrapped some html via xpath, that I then converted into an etree. Something similar to this:

 text1  link  text2 
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Answer 1

def get_text_recursive(node):
    return (node.text or '') + ''.join(map(get_text_recursive, node)) + (node.tail or '')