html_str = """
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Page name</title>
</head>
<body>
<div>
div-text
<span>span-text</span>
<a>a-text</a>
<p>p-text</p>
</div>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Heading</th>
<th>Another Heading</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
table-text-2
</table>
</body>
</html>
"""
from lxml import etree
html = etree.HTML(html_str)
res = html.xpath('head/title/text()')
res = html.xpath('normalize-space(body/div/text())')
print(res)