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How to get text for a root element using lxml?
some_tag = etree.fromstring('<some_tag class="abc"><strong>Hello</strong> World</some_tag>')

some_tag.find("strong")
Out[195]: <Element strong at 0x7427d00>

some_tag.find("strong").text
Out[196]: 'Hello'

some_tag
Out[197]: <Element some_tag at 0x7bee508>

some_tag.text

<strong>Hello</strong> World

>>> some_tag.find("strong").tail
' World'

comp = [ etree.tostring(e) for e in some_tag]
print ''.join(comp[0])

from lxml import etree

XML = '<some_tag class="abc"><strong>Hello</strong> World</some_tag>'

some_tag = etree.fromstring(XML)

for element in some_tag:
    print element.tag, element.text, element.tail

print etree.tostring(some_tag.find("strong"))

<strong>Hello</strong> World