# Removing  

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/removing-nbsp/174727>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 1, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/removing-nbsp/174727 "2009-09-01T11:50:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![prashanth\_hiremath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@prashanth\_hiremath](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/prashanth_hiremath)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/removing-nbsp/174727/1 "2009-09-01T11:50:59Z")

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undefined method `replace’ for #Hpricot::Doc:0xb7a5627c

I am doing scraping data so that able to bring in html form if i wanna  
convert into xml form

it having &nbsp; so that it giving error if i delete manually it works  
but  
unable to remove from code