python XML get text inside <p>...</p> tag
Question: I guys, I have an xml structure which looks somewhat like this.

    
    
    <abstract>
      <p id = "p-0001" num = "0000">
         blah blah blah
      </p>
    </abstract>
    

I would like to extract the `<p>` tag inside the `<abstract>` tag only.

I tried:

    
    
    import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
    
    xroot = ET.parse('100/A/US07640598-20100105.XML').getroot()
    
    for row in xroot.iter('p'):
         print row.text
    

This get all the `<p>` tag in my xml which is not a good idea.

Is there anyway i can extract the text inside

My desire output would be extracting "blah blah blah"


Answer: You can use an _XPath expression_ to search for `p` elements specifically
inside the `abstract`:

    
    
    for p in xroot.xpath(".//abstract//p"):
        print(p.text.strip())
    

Or, if using `iter()` you may have a nested loop:

    
    
    for abstract in xroot.iter('abstract'):
        for p in abstract.iter('p'):
            print(p.text.strip())
    

