consider a html page
<html>
apple
orange
drugs
</html>
how can you select orange using xpath ?
/html/text()[2]
doesn't work.
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A:
You cant do it directly by selecting. You need to call an xpath string function to cut the text() to get the string you want
substring-after(/html/text()," ") // something like this,
here is a list of string functions
Andrew Keith
2009-10-18 00:29:32
A:
If the strings are separated with <br> it works
doc = Nokogiri::HTML("""<html>
apple
<br>
orange
<br>
drugs
</html>""")
p doc.xpath('//text()[2]') #=> orange
Adrian
2009-11-24 15:43:31