Duplicate: Looking for C# HTML parser. Please close.
Can you recommend me a library for reading HTML files as XML in .NET? I'd actually prefer to deal with XML objects rather than text. Ideally, it must fix HTML formatting errors.
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A:
http://www.codeplex.com/htmlagilitypack
Duplicate? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/100358/looking-for-c-html-parser
BigBlondeViking
2009-07-16 17:16:34
Yes, it looks like this.
Alex Yakunin
2009-07-16 17:18:48
Just found SgmlReader as well: http://developer.mindtouch.com/SgmlReader
Alex Yakunin
2009-07-16 17:22:07
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A:
You may want to rethink this. The two are not equal.
a great example of this is self closing tags.
XML standard indicates that a self closing tag looks like the following:
<br/>
while html standards has non-content tags as single tags
<br>
<link rel="...">
In html, using the xml syntax actually is a violation, as /> has a different meaning.
There are more examples of these issues in the following article.
Tim Hoolihan
2009-07-16 17:17:46
That's precisely the point of the question - he wants a library that would read HTML, with all its quirks, and expose it as well-formed XHTML. So `<br>` gets translated to `<br/>`, implicitly-closed `<p>` becomes explicitly closed, etc.
Pavel Minaev
2009-07-16 17:22:05