How To Convert < Into < In Lxml, Python?

There's a xml file: I go to to to school. For some reason, I changed to &a

Solution 1:

First find a unescape function:

from xml.sax.saxutils import unescape

entry=body[0]

unescape and replace it with the original:

body.replace(entry, e.fromstring(unescape(e.tounicode(entry))))

Solution 2:

If you know which element contains wrongly escaped elements:

# parse whole document as usual..
# find the entry element..
# parse the fragment
fragment = lxml.fromstring(entry.text)
# (optionally) add the fragment to the tree
entry.text = None
entry.append(fragment)