As iterparse iterates over the entire file a tree is built and no elements are freed. The advantage of doing this is that the elements remember who their parent is, and you can form XPaths that refer to ancestor elements. The disadvantage is that it can consume a lot of memory. In order to free … Read more
for event, element in etree.iterparse(path_to_file, tag=”BlogPost”): for child in element: print(child.tag, child.text) element.clear() the final clear will stop you from using too much memory. [update:] to get “everything between … as a string” i guess you want one of: for event, element in etree.iterparse(path_to_file, tag=”BlogPost”): print(etree.tostring(element)) element.clear() or for event, element in etree.iterparse(path_to_file, tag=”BlogPost”): print(”.join([etree.tostring(child) … Read more