jquery exclude some child nodes from .text()

Answer 1

This works for me and seems very generic [EDITED to make the procedure clearer]

var t = [];
$("#parent").each(function(i,e) 
    {if (e.nodeName!="SCRIPT") t.push(e.innerText);}​);​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
console.log(t);

Instead of console.log() you should obviously collect the strings in some other way (array?) to use them in your code.

http://jsfiddle.net/8eu4W/3/