Thanks. I need to read in a GPX file, remove all occurences of the "<time>" element, regardless of what they contain, and write back the edited data: ====== import lxml.etree as et def remove(root, tag, text):     items = root.xpath(f'.//{tag}')     for item in items:         if item.text == text:             parent = item.getparent()             parent.remove(item)     return root tree = et.parse("input.gpx") remove(tree,"time","") #Still here print(et.tostring(tree, pretty_print=True)) with open("output.gpx", 'wb') as doc:    doc.write(et.tostring(tree, pretty_print = True)) ====== I'll read up on element.iter, element.iterdescendants, etc. On 30/07/2021 21:13, Dave Kuhlman wrote:

Are you looking for something like this:

# ------------------------------ def remove(root, tag, text):     items = root.xpath(f'.//{tag}')     for item in items:         if item.text == text:             parent = item.getparent()             parent.remove(item)     return root # ------------------------------

Also look at element.iter, element.iterdescendants, etc.

Dave

On Fri 30 Jul 2021 11:02:59 AM PDT, Gilles wrote:

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Hello,

I'm only getting started with (l)xml, and was curious to know if someone had an example of how to remove all items in an XML file that match the following string:

^\t*<ele>100.25</ele>\r\n

Thank you.

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