method

get_text

ruby latest stable - Class: REXML::Element

get_text(path = nil)

public

Returns the first child Text node, if any, or nil otherwise. This method returns the actual Text node, rather than the String content.

doc = Document.new "<p>some text <b>this is bold!</b> more text</p>"
# The element 'p' has two text elements, "some text " and " more text".
doc.root.get_text.value            #-> "some text "

# File lib/rexml/element.rb, line 462
    def get_text path = nil
      rv = nil
      if path
        element = @elements[ path ]
        rv = element.get_text unless element.nil?
      else
        rv = @children.find { |node| node.kind_of? Text }
      end
      return rv
    end

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Get all inner texts

emime · Oct 18, 20091 thank

Extend REXML::Element so that it can get the first text and following inner texts (child texts included) of the current element as array and as string:

class REXML::Element

def inner_texts

REXML::XPath.match(self,'.//text()') end

def inner_text

REXML::XPath.match(self,'.//text()').join end

end

get_text

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Get all inner texts

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