lxml/ElementTree and .tail

[Paul Boddie]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
>

[Remove an element, remove following nodes]

> Yes, it is. Just look at the API. It's an attribute of an Element, isn't it?
> What other API do you know where removing an element from a data structure
> leaves part of the element behind?

I guess it depends on what you regard an element to be...

[...]

> IMHO, DOM has a pretty significant mismatch with Python.

...in the DOM or otherwise:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#sec-logical-struct

Paul