How to get XML from xpath Element?

Question

Python

I need to get XML from xpath Element.
afile.xml:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<applications >
  <application >
      <journalNumber > 1 < /journalNumber >
   </application >
   <application >
      <journalNumber > 2</journalNumber>
   </application >
</applications >

The code:

etxml = etree.parse(afile)
    root = etxml.getroot()

    value = root.xpath("//*[local-name() = '{0}']".format("application"))

Shows type:

<Element {http://zakupki.gov.ru/oos/types/1}application at 0x16568142d48>

And I need to get XML from this

Answer 1

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Element to String Element
Text
test.xml

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<applications>
    <application>
        <journalNumber>1</journalNumber>
    </application>
    <application>
        <journalNumber>2</journalNumber>
    </application>
</applications>

Python 3

from lxml import etree

etxml = etree.parse('test.xml')

root = etxml.getroot()
values = root.xpath("//*[local-name() = 'journalNumber']")


for value in values:
    print('XML: ', etree.tostring(value, encoding='unicode'))
    print('Text: ', value.text)

Output

XML:  <journalNumber>1</journalNumber>
    
Text:  1
XML:  <journalNumber>2</journalNumber>
    
Text:  2