import lxml.html
html = '''<html>
<head>
<title>MyTitle</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Header</h1>
<a href = "ya.ru">1</a>
</body>
</html>'''
doc = lxml.html.fromstring(html)
title = doc.xpath('//title/text()')
print(title) # ['MyTitle']
title = doc.xpath('//title')[0].text
print(title) # MyTitle
title_elem = doc.xpath('//title')[0]
print("title tag:", title_elem.tag)
print("title text:", title_elem.text_content())
print("title html:", lxml.html.tostring(title_elem))
print("title tag:", title_elem.tag)
print("title's parent's tag:", title_elem.getparent().tag)
href = doc.xpath('//a')[0]
print(href.attrib['href']) # ya.ru