Question

I have trouble printing simple text from a <h1> element:

require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::HTML("<h1><em>Name</em>A Johnson </h1>")
puts doc.at_xpath("//h1").content

It outputs:

NameA Johnson

I want just A Johnson in the output. Is it possible to select just this text using XPath or CSS selectors?

Answer 1

How about using text() XPath function? Like this (untested though):

require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::HTML("<h1><em>Name</em>A Johnson </h1>")
puts doc.at_xpath("//h1/text()").content