Nokogiri text node contents
Is there any clean way to get the contents of text nodes with Nokogiri? Right now I'm using some_node.at_xpath( "//whatever" ).first.content which seems really verbose for just getting text. You want only the text? doc.search('//text()').map(&:text) Maybe you don't want all the whitespace and noise. If you want only the text nodes containing a word character, doc.search('//text()').map(&:text).delete_if{|x| x !~ /\w/} Edit: It appears you only wanted the text content of a single node: some_node.at_xpath( "//whatever" ).text Just look for text nodes: require 'nokogiri' doc = Nokogiri::HTML(<