[lxml-dev] Objectify and a text-tag

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Mon Feb 26 18:17:51 CET 2007


Hi,

Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
> assuming i've got an XML like
> 
> <foo><text>blabla</text></foo>
> 
> How am I supposed to change the blabla text? foo.text does obviously 
> not work since that is the text value of foo.
> 
> foo['text'] would have been nice, but that's not working either.

Ah, right. That's a bug, I'd say. We special case things like 'text' in
__setattr__(), but not in __setitem__(), where we delegate to __setattr__ for
the easy stuff.

I'll see how to fix that.

Stefan



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