# Need only the tags which are at the first level

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-only-the-tags-which-are-at-the-first-level/154749>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 3, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-only-the-tags-which-are-at-the-first-level/154749 "2008-12-03T15:22:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shanmu)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-only-the-tags-which-are-at-the-first-level/154749/1 "2008-12-03T15:22:30Z")

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require ‘rubygems’  
require ‘hpricot’

elements = Hpricot("

| ...stuff I don't want... |
| ------------rows i want ------------end of rows i want 

| Field 0 

| Field 1 | Field 2 |

 | Field 3 | Field 4, Field 5 |

 |

")

from this above code, in second table, i need only the first level of

 values and i dont need the second level tags which says "Field 1 Field 2" , i mean the output should be "Field 0 Field 3 Field 4" . i tried but i got all values

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**Author:** ![shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shanmu)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 5:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-only-the-tags-which-are-at-the-first-level/154749/2 "2008-12-08T05:46:30Z")

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guhit…

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**Author:** ![shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shanmu)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-only-the-tags-which-are-at-the-first-level/154749/3 "2008-12-09T12:11:53Z")

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using/…

Following\_siblings method…

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**Author:** ![shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@shanmu](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/shanmu)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-only-the-tags-which-are-at-the-first-level/154749/4 "2008-12-10T07:05:30Z")

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Srikanth J. wrote:

> using/…
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> Following\_siblings method…
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thanks for your reply