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Asked: 2026-05-12T23:50:11+00:00

I am using mechanize/nokogiri and need to parse out the following HTML string. can

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I am using mechanize/nokogiri and need to parse out the following HTML string.
can anyone help me with the xpath syntax to do this or any other methods that would work?

<table>
  <tr class="darkRow">
    <td>
      <span>
        <a href="?x=mSOWNEBYee31H0eV-V6JA0ZejXANJXLsttVxillWOFoykMg5U65P4x7FtTbsosKRbbBPuYvV8nPhET7b5sFeON4aWpbD10Dq">
            <span>4242YP</span>
        </a>
      </span>
    </td>
    <td>
      <span>Subject of Meeting</span>
    </td>
    <td>
      <span>
        <span>01:00 PM</span> 
        <span>Nov 11 2009</span> 
        <span>America/New_York</span>
      </span>
    </td>
    <td>
      <span>30</span>
    </td>
    <td>
      <span>
        <span>example@email.com</span>
      </span>
    </td>
    <td>
        <span>39243368</span>
    </td>
  </tr>
  .
  .
  .
  <more table rows with the same format>
</table>

I want this as the output

"4242YP","Subject of Meeting","01:00 PM Nov 11 2009 America/New_York","30","example@email.com", "39243368"
.
.
.
<however many rows exist in the html table>
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  1. Editorial Team

    something like this?

    items=doc.xpath('//tr').map {|row| row.xpath('.//span/text()').select{|item| item.text.match(/\w+/)}.map {|item| item.text} }

    returns:
    => [[“4242YP”, “Subject of Meeting”, “01:00 PM”, “Nov 11 2009”, “America/New_York”, “30”, “example@email.com”, “39243368”], [“abcdefg”]]

    Select includes only spans that start with word characters (e.g. excluding the whitespace that some of your spans have). You may need to refine the “select” filter for your specific case.

    I added a minimalist row that contained a span containing abcdefg, so that you can see the nested array.

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