lxml/ElementTree and .tail

[Fredrik Lundh]

Chas Emerick wrote:

> The principle and the practice diverge significantly in our neck of  
> the woods.  The current project involves consuming and making sense  
> of extraordinarily (and typically unnecessarily) complex XHTML.

wasn't your original complaint that ET didn't do the "right thing" when 
you removed elements from a mixed-content tree? (something than can be 
trivially handled with a 2-line helper function)

why mutate the tree if all you want is to extract information from it? 
doesn't sound very efficient to me...

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