Rails - May 2008 - A Little Help with Hpricot Parsing

I need to scrape out the name, address, city, state, zip, etc. from
site. Due to their wonderful coding, they didn''t put lines of text in
<p> tags. So Hpricot doesn''t see the address (et al) as an
element,
but it does see the <br> as empty elements.

So how do I pick out the address and so forth if they are not in
elements?

Here is what I have scraped so for, down to my target table:
<table id="vbsSearch_pnlSortByOrg">
	<tr>
		<td>
			<h3>
				<span class="orgName">Bank of America</span>
			</h3>
			405 N. 3rd Street<br>
			Phoenix, Arizona&nbsp;60606<br>
			Distance: N/A<br>
			800-555-1212<br>
			<ul>
				<li>
					<strong>June 15 - 20 2008</strong><br>
					6:00 PM&nbsp;-&nbsp;9:00 PM<br>
					Event Theme Name<br>
				</li>
			</ul>
			<hr align="left" width="100%">
			<h3>
				<span class="orgName">Washington Mutual</span>
			</h3>
			3705 Beaver Creek Rd<br>
			Austin, Texas&nbsp;60606<br>
			Distance: N/A<br>
			800-555-1212<br>
			<ul>
				<li>
					<strong>July 07 - 11 2008</strong><br>
					9:00 AM&nbsp;-&nbsp;12:00 AM<br>
					Event Theme Name<br>
				</li>
			</ul>
			<hr align="left" width="100%">
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>


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> So how do I pick out the address and so forth if they are not in
> elements?
Use that fact to your advantage. The only non-elements in the table
cell are your addresses.

doc.search(''/table/tr/td/*'').each do |node|
  print node unless node.elem?
end

This will print out the addresses only.
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