Nokogiri text node contents

Question

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

Answer 1

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