Hi
I need to get all the content inside the body tag of a html file using c#, any good and effective ways of doing this?
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A:
Check out the HTML Agility Pack to do all sorts of HTML manipulation
It gives you an interface somewhat similar to the XmlDocument XML handling interface:
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load("file.htm");
HtmlNode bodyNode = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("/html/body");
if(bodyNode != null)
{
// do something
}
marc_s
2010-10-27 20:34:14
That URL to SgmlReader leads to a very old version that hasn't been touched in years. The guys maintaining SgmlReader these days are MindTouch. I would recommend SgmlReader over HtmlAgilityPack due to its lower level approach and active maintenance. http://developer.mindtouch.com/en/docs/SgmlReader
asbjornu
2010-10-27 21:02:06
If your HTML isn't wellformed XHTML I think you'll find that SgmlReader (and yeah use the mindtouch version as in the comment above) is your best bet.
nrkn
2010-10-27 23:19:36
@asbjomu - Looking through the conversion examples on the mindtouch site, I can't find a single one where SgmlReader produces a DOM that matches what browsers do. I don't know whether HTML Agility Pack is any better, but I wasn't impressed.
Alohci
2010-10-27 23:33:13
@Alohci I agree that SgmlReader isn't up to par with browser parsers, but there aren't many alternatives native to C# that does it better. HtmlAgilityPack surely doesn't.
asbjornu
2010-10-30 13:18:21
A:
Its easy enough to pull the page code into a string, and simply search for the occurrence of the string "<body" and the string "</body", and just do a little math to get your value...
Dutchie432
2010-10-27 20:36:10
A:
Use XML methods, XPATH (if you want ONLY specified node). For more advanced manipulation with html use HTML Agility pack.
Tomas Voracek
2010-10-27 21:01:10