如何使用lxml删除不在标签中的文本？

Question

Now i got xml like following:

<div>
<p>the first paragraph</p>
<p>the sencond paragraph</p>
something others...
</div>

And i want remove these something others... from object content .

I know it can be got by using content.xpath('.//text()[not(ancestor::p)]') , but it seems be no good method to remove these text directly from object.

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Update: I tried //p[last()]/following::* , it does not works as i want...

Answer 1

They are stored in the tail attribute of the previous sibling tag, so to remove all these "something others..." do:

for elem in document.iter():
    elem.tail = ''

edit :

To remove the tail texts of every last p sibling in the document:

for elem in document.iter():
    if elem.tag == 'p' and not elem.getnext():
        elem.tail = ''