Parse XML to String with <b> tags [duplicate]

Question

I'm only getting value1 when using .findall('string') and rest is ignored. How to get whole value? xml file input:

<resources>
 <string name="key">value1 <b>value2</b>. value3</string>
</resources>

python code:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse(xml_file)
root = tree.getroot()
for string in root.findall('string'):
       name = string.get('name')
       value = string.text

Guy · Accepted Answer · 2024-07-15 07:59:02Z

2

You can do it with itertext()

for string in root.findall('string'):
    value = ''.join(string.itertext())
    print(value)

# output:
# value1 value2. value3

answered Jul 15, 2024 at 7:59

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Hermann12 Over a year ago

An alternative to itertext could be value = ET.tostring(string, method='text') print(value.decode()). This solution works also, if the tag have tail text, itertext() doesn’t.

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