Here is a HTML snippet and all I want is to get only the text nodes and iterate them. Pls let me know. Thanks.
<div>
<div>
Select your Age:
<select>
<option>0 to 10</option>
<option>20 and above</option>
</select>
</div>
<div>
Help/Hints:
<ul>
<li>This is required field.
<li>Make sure select the right age.
</ul>
<a href="#">Learn More</a>
</div>
</div>
Result:
Something like this:
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load(yourHtmlFile);
foreach (HtmlNode node in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//text()[normalize-space(.) != '']"))
{
Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText.Trim());
}
Will output this:
Select your Age:
0 to 10
20 and above
Help/Hints:
This is required field.
Make sure select the right age.
Learn More
I tested @Simon Mourier's answer on the Google home page and got lots of CSS and Javascript, so I added an extra filter to remove it:
public string getBodyText(string html)
{
string str = "";
HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);
try
{
// Remove script & style nodes
doc.DocumentNode.Descendants().Where( n => n.Name == "script" || n.Name == "style" ).ToList().ForEach(n => n.Remove());
// Simon Mourier's Answer
foreach (HtmlNode node in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//text()[normalize-space(.) != '']"))
{
str += node.InnerText.Trim() + " ";
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
}
return str;
}
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