From: tamouse mailing lists Date: 2013-04-15T01:59:15+09:00 Subject: Re: Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Love U Ruby wrote: > Here is the documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/nokogiri/frames > > Why does below code not printing the full text? > > Code: > ====== > > require 'nokogiri' > > html = <<-END > > > > > A Dirge > > href = "http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0/"> > > content = "A Dirge"> > > content = "Shelley, Percy Bysshe"> > > content = "poem"> > > content = "1820"> > > content = "text/html"> > > content = "en"> > > > > 
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>             Rough wind, that moanest loud
>               Grief too sad for song;
>             Wild wind, when sullen cloud
>               Knells all the night long;
>             Sad storm, whose tears are vain,
>             Bare woods, whose branches strain,
>             Deep caves and dreary main, -
>               Wail, for the world's wrong!
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> > > END > > doc = Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse(html) > doc.children.each do |ch| > p ch.content if ch.text? > end > > Output: > ======== > > "\n\n \n\n " > "\n\n " > > Expected output: > ================ > > Rough wind, that moanest loud > Grief too sad for song; > Wild wind, when sullen cloud > Knells all the night long; > Sad storm, whose tears are vain, > Bare woods, whose branches strain, > Deep caves and dreary main, - > Wail, for the world's wrong! > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > If you actually look at the structure of doc, the next to last entry in it's children contains children as well, which you need to loop through. Try this: (load your code into irb) require 'pp' pp doc and see what the structure is.