Get all text inside a tag in lxml

Question

I'd like to write a code snippet that would grab all of the text inside the <content> tag, in lxml, in all three instances below, including the code tags. I've tried tostring(getchildren()) but that would miss the text in between the tags. I didn't have very much luck searching the API for a relevant function. Could you help me out?

<!--1-->
<content>
<div>Text inside tag</div>
</content>
#should return "<div>Text inside tag</div>

<!--2-->
<content>
Text with no tag
</content>
#should return "Text with no tag"


<!--3-->
<content>
Text outside tag <div>Text inside tag</div>
</content>
#should return "Text outside tag <div>Text inside tag</div>"

Answer 1

Does text_content() do what you need?