How to find direct children of element in lxml

Question

I found an object with specific class:

THREAD = TREE.find_class(\'thread\')[0]

Now I want to get all

elements that a

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but it seem that your problem is in HTML itself: note that there are couple Tag omission cases applicable for p nodes, so closing tags of paragraphs

    
first
        
second
    

simply ignored by parser and both nodes identified as siblings, but not parent and child, e.g.

    
first
    
second

So XPath //div[@class="thread"]/p will return you both paragraphs

You can simply replace p tags with div tags and you'll see different behaviour:

    
first
        
second
    

Here //div[@class="thread"]/div will return first node only

Please correct me if my assumption is incorrect