From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-06-25T05:15:44+09:00
Subject: Re: html to plain text

On 6/24/07, Florian A�mann <florian.assmann@email.de> wrote:
> Hi Colin, consult api doc for Hpricot.inner_text:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'hpricot'
> require 'open-uri'
> doc = open( 'http://www.google.com/ncr' ) { |io| Hpricot io }
> doc.inner_text
^^^^^^^
This code (above) doesn't work on my system.

The following does:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
html_string = '<b>Manufacturer</b>'
html_data = Hpricot html_string
html_element = html_data / "b"
puts html_element.inner_html

Todd