lxml xpath expression for selecting all text under a given child node including his children

问题

Provided I have a XML as follows:

<node1>
    <text title='book'>
       <div chapter='0'>
          <div id='theNode'>
              <p xml:id="40">
               A House that has:
                   <p xml:id="45">- a window;</p>
                   <p xml:id="46">- a door</p>
                   <p xml:id="46">- a door</p>
               its a beuatiful house
               </p>
          </div>
       </div>
    </text>
</node1>

I would like to locate text title and get all the text from the first p tag appearing inside the text title book node

so far I know:

from lxml import etree
XML_tree = etree.fromstring(XML_content,parser=parser)
text = XML_tree.xpath('//text[@title="book"]/div/div/p/text()')

gets: "A house that has is a beautiful house"

But I would like also all the text of all the possible children and great children of the first

appearing under

basically; look for then look for the first

and give me all the text under that p tag whatever the nesting.

pseudo code:

text = XML_tree.xpath('//text[@title="book"]/... any number of nodes.../p/ ....all text under p')

Thanks.

回答1:

Try using either string() or normalize-space()...

from lxml import etree

XML_content = """
<node1>
    <text title='book'>
       <div chapter='0'>
          <div id='theNode'>
              <p xml:id="x40">
               A House that has:
                   <p xml:id="x45">- a window;</p>
                   <p xml:id="x46">- a door</p>
                   <p xml:id="x47">- a door</p>
               its a beuatiful house
               </p>
          </div>
       </div>
    </text>
</node1>
"""

XML_tree = etree.fromstring(XML_content)
text = XML_tree.xpath('string(//text[@title="book"]/div/div/p)')
# text = XML_tree.xpath('normalize-space(//text[@title="book"]/div/div/p)')
print(text)

Output using string()...


               A House that has:
                   - a window;
                   - a door
                   - a door
               its a beuatiful house

Output using normalize-space()...

A House that has: - a window; - a door - a door its a beuatiful house

回答2:

Another option :

XML_tree = etree.fromstring(XML_content)
text = [el.strip() for el in XML_tree.xpath('//text()[ancestor::text[@title="book"]][normalize-space()]')]
print(" ".join(text))
print("\n".join(text))

Output :

A House that has: - a window; - a door - a door its a beuatiful house
A House that has:
- a window;
- a door
- a door
its a beuatiful house

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62472162/lxml-xpath-expression-for-selecting-all-text-under-a-given-child-node-including

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