how to make Nokogiri not to convert   to space

Question

i fetch one html fragment like

"<li>市&nbsp;场&nbsp;价"

which contains " ", but after calling to_s of Nokogiri NodeSet, it becomes

"<li>市 场 价"

, i want to keep the original html fragment, and tried to set :save_with option for to_s method, but failed.

can someone encounter the same problem and give me help? thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I encountered a similar situation, and what I came up was a bit of a hack, but it seems to work well.

nbsp = Nokogiri::HTML(" ").text
text.gsub(nbsp, " ")

In my case, I wanted the nbsp to be a regular space. I think in your case, you want them to be returned to a " ", so you could do something like:

nbsp = Nokogiri::HTML(" ").text
html.gsub(nbsp, " ")