how does one remove <![CDATA[ ]]> tags from around text in XML using Hpricot?

Question

i just want the text out of there with out those tags. Does Hrpicot.XML have any methods for this?

Answer 1

use element.inner_text instead of #inner_html and it removes them for you

Answer 2

doc.search("*") do |element|
    element.swap element.content if element.kind_of? Hpricot::CData
end