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Asked: 2026-05-17T06:14:05+00:00

Currnetly I am doing words = [] words << philip morris words << Philip

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Currnetly I am doing

words = []
words << "philip morris"
words << "Philip morris"
words << "philip Morris"
words << "Philip Morris"
for word in words
  doc.search("[text()*='#{word}']")
end

When I was using hpricot I found where to downcase the results within the gem so I could just keep all my searchs lowercase, however nokogiri has been quite difficult to find where one could even do that. Is anyone aware of a way to do this?
Thank you very much for your time

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  1. Editorial Team

    The lower-case XPath function is not available but you can use the translate XPath 1.0 function to convert your text to lowercase e.g. for the English alphabet:

    translate(text(),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')

    I couldn’t seem to use this in combination with the *= operator but you can use contains to do a substring search instead, making the full thing:

    doc.search("//*[contains(translate(text(),'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'),'philip morris')]")
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