How can I view a text representation of an lxml element? How can I view a text representation of an lxml element? xml xml

How can I view a text representation of an lxml element?


From http://lxml.de/tutorial.html#serialisation

>>> root = etree.XML('<root><a><b/></a></root>')>>> etree.tostring(root)b'<root><a><b/></a></root>'>>> print(etree.tostring(root, xml_declaration=True))<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ASCII'?><root><a><b/></a></root>>>> print(etree.tostring(root, encoding='iso-8859-1'))<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?><root><a><b/></a></root>>>> print(etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=True))<root>  <a>    <b/>  </a></root>