lxml - ignore <br> tag in html
html-parsing, lxml, python
Solution
Use `text_content()` to extract all of the non-markup text within a tag. Replace `x.text` with `x.text_content()`.
Problem
I wrote a tiny html-parser in Python using lxml. It's very useful, but I have a problem. I have the following code: ``` tags = doc.xpath('//table//tr/td[@align="right"]/b') for tag in tags: print(x.text.strip()) ``` It works fine. But if there is a `<br>` tag inside a `<b>` element, like this: ``` <b> first-half <br> second-half </b> ``` this code will only print `first-half` into the `<b>` tag. How can I get all of text in `<b>` even if there is a `<br>` tag? Thanks.