How to get content without nested elements with Nokogiri

src = '<paragraph>And bla foo <note>not important</note> bar baz</paragraph>'
doc = Noko开发者_Go百科giri::XML(src)
puts doc.xpath('paragraph').first.content

The code above returns:

"And bla foo not important bar baz"

I am looking for a way to get content without nested elements. The case above is just an example XML, but in this example I want this as a result:

"And bla foo bar baz"

puts doc.xpath('paragraph/child::text()')

I've not used XPath in anger for many years but that seems to work.

Or better yet:

puts doc.xpath('paragraph/child::text()').to_s.squeeze(' ')

You could do something like

doc.xpath('paragraph').children.map { |e| e.text if e.text? }.join

That will return 'And bla foo bar baz' from your example