def replace_tags_with_text(top_node):
"""
Replace common tags with just text so we don't have any crazy
formatting issues so replace <br>, <i>, <strong>, etc.... with whatever
text is inside them code:
http://lxml.de/api/lxml.etree-module.html#strip_tags.
"""
parser.strip_tags(top_node, 'b', 'strong', 'i', 'br')
def convert_links_to_text(top_node):
"""
Cleans up and converts any nodes that should be considered text into
text.
"""
parser.strip_tags(top_node, 'a')
