Reading web page text content using Xml document

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I am trying to read webpage text by using Xml Document:

XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
string site = "https://emailhunter.co/search/a-bs.com";
document.Load(site);
string allText = document.InnerText;

This is the exception i get:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.Xml.XmlException' occurred in System.Xml.dll Additional information: The ';' character, hexadecimal value 0x3B, cannot be included in a name. Line 5, position 383.

I really don't understand what's wrong here. If you can give me some tips, I would really appreciate it.

The url links not to an xml document this a html document. I think you try to read content from an url secured by a login. — Mathias Müller, Oct 05 '16 at 11:45
No, HTML isn't XML. See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5472162/how-to-read-html-as-xml — Mathias Müller, Oct 05 '16 at 11:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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You can use the Html Agility Pack like written in this post: What is the best way to parse html in C#?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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