XML Text Extraction Function

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Code introduction


This function takes an XML string as input, parses the string, and extracts text from all elements. It then returns a list of texts without any empty strings.


Technology Stack : lxml

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate


                
                    
import lxml.etree as etree

def extract_text_from_xml(xml_string):
    # Parse the XML string
    root = etree.fromstring(xml_string)
    # Extract text from all elements in the XML
    text_list = [element.text for element in root.iter()]
    # Filter out empty strings and return the list
    return [text for text in text_list if text]                
              
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