how you get node text without it's children?

[dragonattack]

Hi, first of all, thanks for the nice lib.

for example, we have code like this:

<li id="listItem">
    This is some text
    <span id="firstSpan">First span text</span>
    <span id="secondSpan">Second span text</span>
</li>

We need to get This is some text only. the text() method will give us This is some textFirst span textSecond span text

There's solution for jQuery: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3442394/jquery-using-text-to-retrieve-only-text-not-nested-in-child-tags

Is it possible with hQuery?
Thanks.

[dragonattack]

as workaround I did it that way:

$title = $row->find('#listItem')->text();
foreach ($row->find('#listItem')->children() as $v) $title = str_replace($v->text(), '', $title);
$title = trim($title);

But of course, it's not cool :) And could really fail if we have short phrases in children, that are present in our top phrase, i.e.:

<li id="listItem">
    Unconditional string
    <span id="firstSpan">condition</span>
    <span id="secondSpan">ring</span>
</li>

[duzun]

Hi @dragonattack
Thanks for this hit.
I would suggest

$("#foo").contents().not($("#foo").children()).text();

to avoid cloning.

I did not implement .contents yet, but surely it is a necessary method.

I'm going to implement it whenever I have some free time.