Re: [lxml-dev] Text attribute is None when element has text

Clif Swiggett wrote:

If I run the code:

test = etree.XML('<root><a/>text</root>') for x in test.iter(): print("%s - %s"%(x.tag, x.text))

I get the output:

root - None a - None

I expected that root.text would have been 'text' rather than none. However, if I flip the text and <a/> tag, then it works. E.g.

test = etree.XML('<root>text<a/></root>') for x in test.iter(): print("%s - %s"%(x.tag, x.text))

Output:

root - text a - None

Anyone know why this is, or how to work around it?

Sure, read the docs: http://codespeak.net/lxml/tutorial.html#elements-contain-text Stefan