Issue 1602189: Suggest a textlist() method for ElementTree (original) (raw)

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Created on 2006-11-24 10:00 by rhettinger, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (4)
msg54942 - (view)	Author: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger) *	Date: 2006-11-24 10:00
This patch has a implementation and example for a method to recursively extract prose from nested XML markup. This improves the utility of ElementTree for documents where otherwise contiguous PCDATA are broken-up by inspersed tags (e.g. xhtml or docbook fragments). See attached file or the ASPN recipe at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/498286
msg54943 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2006-11-29 08:20
Why was this assigned to fdrake? Fredrik, can you please take a look? If not, please unassign.
msg54944 - (view)	Author: Fredrik Lundh (effbot) *	Date: 2006-11-29 10:02
This is pretty much identical to the gettext and flatten helpers in the ElementLib utility library (see effbot.org for links and code). The current plan is to make some of these available as helper functions in ElementTree 1.3 (=Python 2.6), rather than methods. I'm leaving this open as a reminder to self.
msg55812 - (view)	Author: Fredrik Lundh (effbot) *	Date: 2007-09-11 06:13
ElementTree 1.3 provides a variant of this (tentatively called "itertext").