Parse table using Nokogiri

Question

I would like to parse a table using Nokogiri. I\'m doing it this way

def parse_table_nokogiri(html)

    doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)

    doc.search(\'table &         


        

Answer 1

Use:

td//text()[normalize-space()]

This selects all non-white-space-only text node descendents of any td child of the current node (the tr already selected in your code).

Or if you want to select all text-node descendents, regardles whether they are white-space-only or not:

td//text()

UPDATE:

The OP has signaled in a comment that he is getting an unwanted td with content just a ' ' (aka non-breaking space).

To exclude also tds whose content is composed only of (one or more) nbsp characters, use:

td//text()[translate(normalize-space(), ' ', '')]