From: Chris Gehlker Date: 2006-08-01T11:41:57+09:00 Subject: Re: Hpricot question On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:17 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > I'm trying to use Hpricot to clean up the text in a big site full > of old-style HTML. I'm just trying to do things like replacing > literal quote characters with and . I'm hampered by the > fact that my understanding of the HTML DOM comes from reading one > web site yesterday and I don't know any javascript. Nonetheless, it > seems that Hpricot should be able to easily give me all the text in > the element of each page because it has a traverse_text() > method. The problem seems to be that if I apply it to a whole page, > I get the text in the element and all the methods for > selecting seem to return an element, not a tree. > > There is a get_subnode method but it doesn't seem to work as expected. Nevermind, The reason get_subnode gives: ...hpricot/traverse.rb:23:in `get_subnode': undefined method `get_subnode_internal' for # is because Why literally hasn't written get_subnode_internal yet. maybe I'll try to write it when/if i get some time. -- For blocks are better cleft with wedges, Than tools of sharp or subtle edges, And dullest nonsense has been found By some to be the most profound. -Samuel Butler,