I actually doing some play with nokogiri methods since last 3 days.
Doing so I have ended up with the below code:
require 'nokogiri'
doc = Nokogiri::XML(<<-eohl)
<Stock>
    <Code>7052</Code>
    <Name>PADINI</Name>
    <StockDailyRecords>
        <PriceOpen>1.2</PriceOpen>
        <PriceChange>1.1</PriceChange>
        <PriceClose>10.0</PriceClose>
        <Volume>3000000L</Volume>
    </StockDailyRecords>
    <StockDailyRecords>
        <PriceOpen>1.3</PriceOpen>
        <PriceChange>1.2</PriceChange>
        <PriceClose>11.0</PriceClose>
        <Volume>5000000L</Volume>
    </StockDailyRecords>
</Stock>
eohl
I actually do not have a clue what you mean by that? Did you not get
what you expected? If you did get what you expected, I don't see
anything wrong with your code.... There are other ways to do that, of
course, but they're not more idiomatic, if that's what you mean, and can
be much worse.
This could work as well:
doc.at_css("StockDailyRecords").children.map(&:text).map(&:strip).select{|el| not el.empty?}
but it's not *better*; It's actually worse, IMO, because it's rolling
through the collection several times.
Yet another:
doc.at_css("StockDailyRecords").children.select do |el|
  el.text.strip!; el unless el.empty?
end
which has the side effect of changing the contents of doc, in my opinion
is dangerous.
And there's inject/reduce, which can be even more arcance/opaque:
doc.at_css("StockDailyRecords").children.reduce() do |m,o|
  o = o.text.strip
  m << o unless o.empty?
  m
end
Given time, I could probably come up with a few more. But that's
moot. Your code is fine.
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(<<-eohl)
<div>
    <dt>
        Test 1
    </dt>
    <dd>
    </dd>
    <dt>
        Test 2
    </dt>
    <dd>
    foo
    </dd>
</div>
eohl
doc.search('div').children.reject(&:text?).map{|n| n.name if
!n.child.to_str.strip.empty? }.compact
# => ["dt", "dt", "dd"]
Any short technique to generate the array `["dt", "dt", "dd"]` ?
