How to represent multiple text parts in an ElementTree element?

Are you trying to parse it?

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
def processElem(elem):
 if elem.text is not None:
 print elem.text
 for child in elem:
 processElem(child)
 if child.tail is not None:
 print child.tail
xml = '''<p>
This paragraph <em>has some</em> emphasised words.
</p>'''
root = ET.fromstring(xml)
processElem(root)

gives:

This paragraph 
has some
 emphasised words.

Or are you trying to modify the HTML?

from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement, tostring
top = Element('p')
top.text = 'This paragraph '
child_with_tail = SubElement(top, 'em')
child_with_tail.text = 'has some'
child_with_tail.tail = ' emphasised words.'
print tostring(top)

gives:

<p>This paragraph <em>has some</em> emphasised words.</p>

• python
• python-2.7
• elementtree