[lxml-dev] xpath on text nodes

[Jamie Norrish]

Hi,

> There is no such concept as a text node in lxml.etree.

Okay, but the string results of an XPath selecting text nodes in the XML
have additional attributes - it just seems a pity that an xpath method
isn't one of them.

> That sounds a lot like you should do that in Python by using iterwalk()
> and collecting .text and .tail attributes of Elements, not by using XPath.

Well, I like XPath. :) In fact I already have an implementation of the
use case that, while slightly subobtimal, is sufficient - it just seemed
like one obvious way of doing it better was to use XPath. I shall
investigate using iterwalk instead.

Thanks!

Jamie
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