# A Little Help with Hpricot Parsing **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 8, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-little-help-with-hpricot-parsing/137073 "2008-05-08T18:52:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![karlshea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@karlshea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karlshea)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-little-help-with-hpricot-parsing/137073/1 "2008-05-08T18:52:50Z")
I need to scrape out the name, address, city, state, zip, etc. from site. Due to their wonderful coding, they didn’t put lines of text in tags. So Hpricot doesn't see the address (et al) as an element, but it does see the as empty elements. So how do I pick out the address and so forth if they are not in elements? Here is what I have scraped so for, down to my target table: | ### Bank of America 405 N. 3rd Street Phoenix, Arizona 60606 Distance: N/A 800-555-1212 - **June 15 - 20 2008** 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Event Theme Name * * * ### Washington Mutual 3705 Beaver Creek Rd Austin, Texas 60606 Distance: N/A 800-555-1212 - **July 07 - 11 2008** 9:00 AM - 12:00 AM Event Theme Name * * * | ---
**Author:** ![karlshea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@karlshea](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/karlshea)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/a-little-help-with-hpricot-parsing/137073/2 "2008-05-09T00:17:10Z")
> So how do I pick out the address and so forth if they are not in > elements? Use that fact to your advantage. The only non-elements in the table cell are your addresses. doc.search(’/table/tr/td/\*’).each do |node| print node unless node.elem? end This will print out the addresses only.