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I have an XML file that looks like this

<a> hello <b> world </b> </a>

I would like to use Scala to extract just a's value, without including any of its children (i.e. without including b's value). Currently, if a is a scala.xml.Node, then a.text returns helloworld. What do I type if I just want hello?

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Both the text node hello and the element node <b>world</b> are children of a. If you want to get just the text nodes, you can use the normal collection methods:

val x = <a>Hello<b>world</b></a> x.child.collect { case t: xml.Text ⇒ t.toString }.mkString // "hello"
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