Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes: > > <foo bar="parrot"></foo> > Technically, text is nodes as all other element nodes. In the > parrot example, there is no empty textnode but no textnode at all. That is required by the xml standard? If yes, elementtree is doing the right thing, but it surprises me, I would have expected an empty string. Thanks.