Getting elements and text with lxml

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 16 May 2008 18:53:03 -0300, J. Pablo Fernández <pupeno at pupeno.com>  
escribió:

> Hello,
>
> I have an XML file that starts with:
>
> <vortaro>
> <art mrk="$Id: a.xml,v 1.10 2007/09/11 16:30:20 revo Exp $">
> <kap>
>   <ofc>*</ofc>-<rad>a</rad>
> </kap>
>
> out of it, I'd like to extract something like (I'm just showing one
> structure, any structure as long as all data is there is fine):
>
> [("ofc", "*"), "-", ("rad", "a")]
>
> How can I do it? I managed to get the content of boths tags and the
> text up to the first tag ("\n   "), but not the - (and in other XML
> files, there's more text outside the elements).

Look for the "tail" attribute.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina