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Nokogiri how to get the parent text and not the childs text and reference the text back to its parent

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A:

There we go

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(DATA.read)

nodes = doc.root.css('.foo').collect do |n|
  { :name => n.name,
    :xpath => n.path,
    :text => n.xpath('.//text()').collect{|t|
      { :parent => t.parent.name,
        :text => t.text }}}
end

p nodes

__END__
<html>
<body>
<h1 class='foo'></h1>
<p class='foo'>hello people<a href='http://'&gt;hello world</a></p>
</body>
</html>

you cannot reach all elements using traverse since it visits only the direct children of the root. Hence, I use a css selector to get all elements with class foo. And then, for each found element, I use an xpath selector to get all text nodes below it.

Adrian 2009-12-07 16:00:18

many thanks adrian

Waheedi 2009-12-08 11:07:10

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