textContent or innerText

[sradu]

Currently I get a result like < span >my_div< /span >. Would it be possible to run .innerText or .textContent on the object so I get only the text?

[yaronn]

hi

can you provide a full sample of xml and xpath you run? You could try xpath with text():

var xml = "<book><title>Harry Potter</title></book>"
var doc = new dom().parseFromString(xml)    
var title = select(doc, "//title/text()")[0].data   
console.log(title)

[sradu]

I have some precreated xpaths to elements. Would have been great to use different funcs (innerhtml, textcontent).

R.

On Tuesday, December 24, 2013, Yaron Naveh wrote:

hi

can you provide a full sample of xml and xpath you run? You could try xpath with text():

var xml = "" var doc = new dom().parseFromString(xml) var title = select(doc, "//title/text()")[0].data console.log(title)

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[yaronn]

Since I only wrapped xpath.js as a node module I need to defer to the original author. @heycam - what does it take to achieve this?

[heycam]

If you have some existing XPath expressions that you are happy to change, but you don't want to change the code around them too much, you could wrap them with a function call for a custom function that would get .textContent from the result. There's no easy way though to change the evaluate function to do this automatically though.

[JLRishe]

@sradu The SelectNodes wrapper function returns an array of DOMNodes. If you want to access their .innerText or .textContent property, you can just go ahead and do so:

var select = require('xpath.js'), 
    dom = require('xmldom').DOMParser 

var xml = "<book><title>Harry Potter</title></book>" ;
var doc = new dom().parseFromString(xml);
var nodes = select(doc, "//title") ;
console.log(nodes[0].textContent);