How to select nodes by matching text

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Nokogiri can do this (now) using jQuery extensions to CSS:

require 'nokogiri'

html="
<html>
  <body>
    <p>foo</p>
    <p>bar</p>
  </body>
</html>
"

doc = Nokogiri::HTML(html)
doc.at('p:contains("bar")').text.strip
=> "bar"

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