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How do I find all child nodes within matched elements (including text nodes)?

in jquery its pretty simple

eg

$("br").parent().contents().each(function() {

but for nokogiri, xpath,

doesn't work very well

var = doc.xpath('//br/following-sibling::text()|//br/preceding-sibling::text()').map do |fruit| fruit.to_s.strip end
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require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(DATA.read)
fruits = doc.xpath('//br/../text()').map { |text| text.content.strip }
p fruits


__END__
<html>
<body>
  <div>
    apple<br>
    banana<br>
    cherry<br>
    orange<br>
  </div>
</body>


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I'm not familiar with nokogiri, but are you trying to find all the children of any containing element <br/>

? If so, try:

//*[br]/node()

In any case, using text () will only match text nodes, not any marriage elements, which may or may not be what you want. If you only want text nodes then



//*[br]/text()

must do the trick.

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