I’m trying to use Hpricot to clean up the text in a big site full of
old-style HTML. I’m just trying to do things like replacing literal
quote characters with and . I’m hampered by the fact that my
understanding of the HTML DOM comes from reading one web site
yesterday and I don’t know any javascript. Nonetheless, it seems that
Hpricot should be able to easily give me all the text in the
element of each page because it has a traverse_text() method. The
problem seems to be that if I apply it to a whole page, I get the
text in the element and all the methods for selecting seem to
return an element, not a tree.
There is a get_subnode method but it doesn’t seem to work as expected.
Thanks in advance for any help
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a
proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and
oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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