Multi line tags?

[Peter Chudinov]

page.css("tr[class=rowA]/td[3]").text

fails with

NoMethodError: undefined method `text' for nil:NilClass

supposedly it happens because original html looks like this:

<td>
"some text in here"

</td>

How do I solve it?

[Hassan Schroeder]

Simplified:

2.3.1 (main):0 > example = "<tr><td>some text in here</td></tr>"
=> "<tr><td>some text in here</td></tr>"
2.3.1 (main):0 > example_plus = "<tr><td>\nsome text in here\n</td></tr>"
=> "<tr><td>\nsome text in here\n</td></tr>"
2.3.1 (main):0 >
Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse(example).css("tr/td").text
=> "some text in here"
2.3.1 (main):0 >
Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment.parse(example_plus).css("tr/td").text
=> "\nsome text in here\n"
2.3.1 (main):0 >

It doesn't appear to be a problem with newlines, but perhaps you
can gist a more complete test case?

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