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<!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pc chrome win psc_dir-ltr psc_form-xlarge" dir="ltr" lang="en">
<title>Some Title</title>
</html>
if I run:
from lxml import etree
html = etree.parse('text.txt')
result = html.xpath('//title')
print(result)
I will get an empty list. I guess it has something to do with namespace, but I can't figure it out how to fix it.
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Try creating the tree using the html parser.
Also note that if text.txt is a file it will need to be read first.
with open('text.txt', 'r', encoding='utf8') as f:
text_html = f.read()
like this:
from lxml import etree, html
def build_lxml_tree(_html):
tree = html.fromstring(_html)
tree = etree.ElementTree(tree)
return tree
tree = build_lxml_tree(text_html)
result = tree.xpath('//title')
print(result)
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