wrapping elements with nokogiri ?

Question

given an xpath say

can you do something like

doc.xpath("/html/body/a").wrap("<span></span>")

and wrap all the links with span tags ?

Answer 1

doc.xpath("/html/body/a").each{ |a| a.swap("<span>#{a}</span>") }

found better solution

doc.search("a").wrap('<span></span>')