Adding attributes to existing elements, removing elements, etc with lxml

Question

I parse in the XML using

from lxml import etree

tree = etree.parse(\'test.xml\', etree.XMLParser())

Now I want to work on the parsed XML. I\'m

Answer 1

The remove method should do what you want:

>>> from lxml import etree
>>> from StringIO import StringIO

>>> s = ''
>>> tree = etree.parse(StringIO(s))

>>> print(etree.tostring(tree.getroot()))


>>> title = tree.find('//Title')
>>> title.getparent().remove(title)
>>> etree.tostring(tree.getroot())
''

>>> print(etree.tostring(tree.getroot()))