Extracting text from XML node with minidom

Question

I\'ve looked through several posts but I haven\'t quite found any answers that have solved my problem.

Sample XML =

Answer 1

A solution with lxml right from the docs:

from lxml import etree
from StringIO import StringIO

xml = etree.parse(StringIO('''
TEXT1TEXT2 TEXT3'''))

xml.xpath("//text()")
Out[43]: ['\n', 'TEXT1', 'TEXT2 ', 'TEXT3']

You also can extract the text of an specific node:

xml.find(".//Node[@id='19']").text

The issue here is the text in the XML doesn't belong to any node.