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

If the element is equal to . You can do the following.

element.xpath('.//text()')

It will give you a list of all text elements from self (the meaning of the dot). // means that it will take all elements and finally text() is the function to extract text.