How can I add unescaped text to an LXML Etree in Python?

Question

LXML's builder allows for easily generation of HTML and XML , like this:

>>>from lxml.builder import E
>>>import lxml.etree
>>>lxml.etree.tostring(E.html('hello'))

b'<html>hello</html>'

But if I include text that's already in HTML, it escapes the angle brackets, as it should:

>>>lxml.etree.tostring(E.html('<b>Hello</b>'))                                                       
b'<html>&lt;b&gt;Hello&lt;/b&gt;</html>'

So how can I get it to treat the inner text as raw HTML/XML? I'd like to get it to output <html><b>Hello</b></html in the above example.

Answer 1

You can easily accomplish this by parsing your html string into an lxml etree object:

In [1]: from lxml.builder import E                                       

In [2]: import lxml.etree                                           

In [3]: lxml.etree.tostring(E.html(lxml.etree.fromstring('<b>Hello</b>')
Out[3]: b'<html><b>Hello</b></html>'

How can I add unescaped text to an LXML Etree in Python?

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How can I add unescaped text to an LXML Etree in Python?

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solution1 1 ACCPTED 2020-04-14 16:07:28

solution1
1 ACCPTED 2020-04-14 16:07:28