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How to retrieve html from an xml?

I'm trying to get get HTML-Code from inside an XML File and all i get are the single elements.

XML-Example:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
  <websites>
    <website name="1">
      <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
        <head>
          <title/>
        </head><body>Sample Content.....</body>
      </html>
    </website>
  </websites>

I need a string containing only the html like this

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title/>
   </head><body>Sample Content.....</body>
</html>
Solution

  • You can use beautifulsoup:

    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

example = """
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<websites>
  <website name="1">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <head>
        <title/>
      </head><body>Sample Content.....</body>
    </html>
  </website>
</websites>
"""

soup = BeautifulSoup(example)
html = soup.find('html')
print(html)

    Output:

    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
</head><body>Sample Content.....</body>
</html>