From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-03-19T23:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Pulling text from elements with REXML

On Mar 19, 5:38 am, Paul Willis <i...@paulwillis.com> wrote:
> root.elements["NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsComponent[1]/NewsComponent/Conten tItem/DataContent/nitf/body/body.head/hedline/hl1"]
>
> Gives me...
>
> <hl1>Blueprint to cut emissions unveiled</hl1>
>
> Is there an easy way (ie something in REXML) to pull just the text
> without the containers <hl1> and </hl1>.

require 'rexml/document'
doc = REXML::Document.new("<root><kid>hello world</kid></root>")
p REXML::XPath.first( doc, '/root/kid/text()' )
#=> "hello world"