Simplify inner_text implementation using lxml's text method #718
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Rather than using regex to remove tags and attributes after the fact.
https://lxml.de/api/lxml.etree-module.html#tostring
This also eliminates the need to perform HTML unescaping.
On my local machine, this reduces the time spent in the inner_text method on Don Quixote from 1.5 seconds to 0.04 seconds.
We add a basic test for the inner_text method in a preliminary commit to demonstrate that the behavior of the new implementation is equivalent.