extracting only elements with text (or value)

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hay all. i am trying to transform html to xml meaning extracting all elements with text using this code is not working maybe some one has the answer ?

System.Xml.Linq.XElement query1 = new System.Xml.Linq.XElement("RawHTMLData",
           from q in hDoc.Descendants("TABLE")
           where q.HasElements 
           select new System.Xml.Linq.XElement("TABLE" + (++i).ToString(),
           from j in q.Elements("TR")
           where j.HasElements && j.Descendants("div") != null
           select new System.Xml.Linq.XElement("Row",
           from hh in j.Descendants("div")
           where tt => j.Descendants("div").Contains(hh.Value) 
           select(TT(hh)))));

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '10 at 09:37

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You cannot use Linq to Xml to parse HTML becase html may be not valid as xml.

answered Mar 28 '10 at 09:37

Andrew Bezzub

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yes i know .. this problem is already solved by replacing the bad strings. so no i can but i want to chose only the XText element \or only the element with value – guy Mar 28 '10 at 09:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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Not sure if this would work for you but you might look at using a third party tool such as HTML Tidy to convert from HTML to XHTML. Then you can treat your html like XML. Here is a link to a post discussing that.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Mar 29 '10 at 17:05

Abe Miessler

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 28 '17 at 05:16

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I think you should use HTML Agility Pack, it has helped me much! :)

Old project Page: http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/

edited Nov 28 '17 at 05:16

wp78de

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answered Mar 20 '11 at 16:19

Hosane

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extracting only elements with text (or value)

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