Merging xml elements with nokogiri

I am trying to get the content of an XML:开发者_运维技巧:Element type. I have tried the content method, but that gives me the text and I am not just interested in the text.

The XML element I have has tags, and I don't want to lose that information. For example, Suppose XML::Element myElement has:

<block>
  element has other tags like <tag> ... </tag>
  <a href ... > </a> ...
  <blah> </blah>
  etc..  
</block>

So I want a method that will return:

element has other tags like <tag> ... </tag>
<a href ... > </a> ...
<blah> </blah>
etc..  

Ultimately, I want to use this to actually merge XML elements into one. If there exists such method already let me know or if you have a nice approach to merge them effectively. As an example,

I have two blocks

<block>
  block 1 has tags like <tag> ... </tag>
  <a href ... > </a> ...
  <blah> </blah>
  etc..  
</block>
<block>
  block 2 has tags like <tag> ... </tag>
  <a href ... > </a> ...
  <blah> </blah>
  etc..  
</block>

and would want to have it all in one block as follows:

<block>
  block 1 has tags like <tag> ... </tag>
  <a href ... > </a> ...
  <blah> </blah>
  etc..  
  block 2 has tags like <tag> ... </tag>
  <a href ... > </a> ...
  <blah> </blah>
  etc..  
</block>

Any help appreciated,

Ted

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Ah just realized how to get the information inside a two tags

puts xmlelement.inner_html