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HTML

<div id="1">Hello
    <div id="2">World</div> <a href="#">missing text</a>

</div>

JavaScript

var res = $('body  *').contents().map(function () {
    if (this.nodeType == 3 && this.nodeValue.trim() != "") 
        return this.nodeValue.trim();
}).get().join(" ");
console.log(res);