lxml - how to get xpath of HtmlElement?

Question

Using an XML etree, it's possible to do:

etree.getpath(element

How would I do the same thing, but with HTML instead of XML?

Answer 1

The _ElementTree has a getpath method:

In [17]: import lxml.html as LH
In [18]: content = '<root><div id="pgbrk" ......>....Page Break....</div></root>'

In [19]: root = LH.fromstring(content)

In [20]: tree = root.getroottree()

In [21]: tree.getpath(root[0])
Out[21]: '/html/body/root/div'