From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-06-25T05:31:44+09:00
Subject: Re: html to plain text

On 6/24/07, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Another "jump too soon moment".

In the above code, I didn't point out that html_element should be
plural.  It still works though, but technically the grammatically
correct way would be:

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'
html_string = '<b>Manufacturer</b>'
html_data = Hpricot html_string
html_elements = html_data / "b"
first_b_element = html_data.at "b"
first_b_element_also = (html_data / "b").first
puts first_b_element.inner_html

Todd