ios - Get text value only from NSXMLElement without the text of child nodes -

i use kissxml, drop replacement nsxmldocument, etc. contents of nsxmlelement:

<ar>     <k>baker</k>     <tr>ˈbeɪkə</tr>     baker пекарь, булочник </ar> 

i want text value of nsxmlelement node without text of child nodes. so, should return only:

baker пекарь, булочник 

this not working:

_articletext = [xmlelement stringvalue]; 

it returns everything, including text of tr , k child nodes.

p.s. got ar node using xpath , i'm searching xpath solution preferably, not want remove substrings.

nsarray *array = [self.xmldocument nodesforxpath:@"/xdxf/ar" error:&error]; 

assuming 'array' contains 1 element, 's' contain string of interest:

nsarray *array = [self.xmldocument nodesforxpath:@"/xdxf/ar" error:&error]; if([array count] > 0) {      nsarray *childrenofar = [array[0] children];         for(nsxmlnode *n in childrenofar) {         if([n kind] == nsxmltextkind) {              nsstring *s = [n stringvalue];         }     } } 

a faster way text() in xpath query:

nsarray *array = [self.xmldocument nodesforxpath:@"/xdxf/ar/text()" error:&error]; if([array count] > 0) {      nsstring *s = [array[0] stringvalue];  }