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In my ruby+mechanize(nokogiri) script I use this piece of code: 

row.at_xpath('td[3]/div[1]/a/text()').to_s.strip

on a forum where the post title html looks like: 

<a href="showthread.php?t=233891" >&lt;/body&gt; on Footer ?</a>

and I receive from xpath this string &lt;/body&gt; on Footer ?

I would like to get what I can see in the web browser </body> on Footer ?

How can I do that for all html escape characters/entities?

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Please take a look this post, to unescape htmlentities

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There is a ruby package called htmlentities

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  • @S.Mark: I didn't know it was called entities (too). htmlentities works like a charm.Thank you. – Radek Jan 23 '10 at 06:36
  • i think its easier to with nokogiri itself a la http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2567029/how-to-make-nokogiri-transparently-return-un-encoded-html-entities-untouched – jm0 Jan 22 '14 at 21:48