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block_text

adbar/trafilatura · trafilatura/baseline.py:312

def block_text(element: HtmlElement) -> str:
    """text_content() alternative that preserves word boundaries at block tags (#896)."""
    element = copy(element)
    for elem in element.iter(*_BLOCK_ELEMS):
        elem.text = f" {remove_control_characters(elem.text)}" if elem.text else " "
        elem.tail = f" {remove_control_characters(elem.tail)}" if elem.tail else " "
    return " ".join(element.text_content().split())

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