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Use Texts To Find All Text Elements
REXML::Element::texts returns all text elements within a leaf node.
doc_b = Document.new("<root><a>\n<b>333</b> <c/> 456</a></root>")
#=> <UNDEFINED> ... </>
irb(main):434:0> doc_b.root.elements['a'].text
#=> "\n"
irb(main):433:0> doc_b.root.elements['a'].texts
#=> ["\n", " ", " 456"]
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