From: Chris Gehlker <canyonrat@...>
Date: 2006-08-11T03:19:13+09:00
Subject: A simple Hpricot text setter

If anyone is trying to use Hpricot to clean up the actual content of  
a site while leaving the markup alone, theymight find the following  
tiny method useful:

class Hpricot::Text
#  Adds a simple Hpricot method to change
#  the text embedded in an HTML document
#
#  Example of use:
#    body.traverse_text do |text|
#      text_out = text.to_s
#      manupulate text_out
#      text.set(text_out)
#    end
   def set(string)
     @content = string
     self.raw_string = string
   end
end

The trick is to set both @content in Hpricot::Text and @raw_string in  
it's parent.
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oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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