Question

I have this HTML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM "http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd">
<en-note><div><strong>this is note 2</strong>. it has a url.</div></en-note>

I want to extract this from it:

<div><strong>this is note 2</strong>. it has a url.</div>

At the moment, I am doing this:

html_doc.xpath('//en-note').each do |a_tag|
    p a_tag.content
end

Which gets me this:

"this is note 2. it has a url."

How can I change the code so that the actual HTML is returned, not just the text?

Answer 1

Simply use to_s

ruby-1.9.2-p180 :010 > Nokogiri::HTML('<tag>content</tag>').xpath('//tag').first.content
 => "content" 
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :004 > Nokogiri::HTML('<tag>content</tag>').xpath('//tag').to_s
 => "<tag>content</tag>"