Remove parent without removing children?

[Heck Lennon]

Hello,

In the following KML file, I need to remove the MultiGeometry parent without removing the LineString children.

Does BS provide a function for that?

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<MultiGeometry>
<LineString>
</LineString>
<LineString>
</LineString>
<LineString>
</LineString>
</MultiGeometry>

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Thank you.

[Chris Papademetrious]

Hi frdt,

I think you want the Tag.unwrap() method. It replaces a tag in-place with its contents.

 - Chris

[Heck Lennon]

Right on! Thank you.

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
from pathlib import Path

INPUTFILE = "input.kml"
BASE = Path(INPUTFILE).stem
OUTPUTFILE = f"{BASE}.OUTPUT.kml"

with open(INPUTFILE, mode='rb') as file:
  fileContent = file.read()
soup = BS(fileContent, features="xml")

mg = soup.find('MultiGeometry') #if not found, check upper/lowercase
if mg:
newtag = mg.unwrap()
outp=open(OUTPUTFILE, 'w',encoding='utf-8')
outp.write(soup.prettify())
outp.close()      
else:
print("Not found")

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