Getting all text nodes in xml using lxml xpath with original order

Question

 <a> aaaa <b> bbbb </b> cccc <d> dddd <f> ffff </f> gggg </d> eeee </a> 

how to use lxml and xpath to get a list. result must be [aaaa,bbbb,cccc,dddd,fff,gggg,eeee]. I can use the function xpath(u"/descendant:: [text()]") and xpath(u"/descendant:: [text()]") to get the result, but the order is incorrect

Answer 1

>>> xml = "<a>aaaa<b>bbbb</b>cccc<d>dddd<f>ffff</f>gggg</d>eeee</a>"
>>> root = lxml.etree.fromstring(xml)
>>> root.xpath(".//text()")
['aaaa', 'bbbb', 'cccc', 'dddd', 'ffff', 'gggg', 'eeee']