The lxml.etree Tutorial

This is a tutorial on XML processing with lxml.etree. It briefly overviews the main concepts of the ElementTree API, and some simple enhancements that make your life as a programmer easier. For a complete reference of the API, see the generated API documentation.

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“Tree iteration For problems like the above, where you want to recursively traverse the tree and do something with its elements, tree iteration is a very convenient solution. Elements provide a tree iterator for this purpose. It yields elements in document order, i.e. in the order their tags would