ElementTree oddities

[Mark Thomas]

Fredrik is correct, the text attribute only contains text before a
child element; tail contains the rest. It is indeed rather odd. For
comparison, here's how you would do it in lxml (http://codespeak.net/
lxml/index.html), a library which supports XPath:

from lxml import etree
tree = etree.fromstring('<highlight><ref>Bar</ref>:</highlight>')
print ' '.join(tree.xpath('//text()'))