From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-08-12T09:20:17+09:00
Subject: Re: A simple Hpricot text setter

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 03:19:13AM +0900, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> 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

You can also use Elements#inner_html= and Element#inner_html= for this.

  (body/:a).inner_html = "New Link Text"

Also: set, html, remove, append, prepend, before, after, and wrap, which all
work just like their JQuery cousins.[1]

Thankyou for using Hpricot, it helps the all horses' hearts when you do.

_why

[1] http://jquery.com/docs/base/