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# Each paragraph consists of a bunch of children. Some are text, some are tags, like <i>, with their own children (the content of the tags).

#

# This implies that in order to get *just* the text, without any markup, we'll need a recursive function to get all the text.

 

 

def just_text el

  s = ""

  el.children.each do |child|

    s += (child.name == "text") ? child.text : just_text(child)

  end

  s

end