Parsing html with the HTML Agility Pack and Linq

Question

I have the following HTML

(..)

 
   Test1 
   Data 
  

        

Answer 1

Here is the XPATH way - hmmm... everyone seems to have forgotten about the power XPATH and concentrate exclusively on C# XLinq, these days :-)

This function gets all data values associated with a name:

public static IEnumerable GetData(HtmlDocument document, string name)
{
    return from HtmlNode node in
        document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//td[@class='name' and contains(text(), '" + name + "')]/following-sibling::td")
        select node.InnerText.Trim();
}

For example, this code will dump all 'Test2' data:

    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
    doc.Load(yourHtml);

    foreach (string data in GetData(doc, "Test2"))
    {
        Console.WriteLine(data);
    }