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

7 Oct 2009

      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?
Thanks!
- Clif

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

Clif Swiggett