Modifying HTML strings in C#?

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In my MVC solution, I have an HTML string and want to search for comment nodes and replace them based on their content.

How can I do this?

Thank you.

EDIT: The language is C#. The HTML string is e.g. "<div id='id1'>blahblah</div><p>show real comment content before this paragraph.</p>". I need to get the comment block and then generate real content based on the count and length attributes.

What is "search comment nodes" and what is "do replacement?" As it stands, your question is almost equivalent to "hey I want to do something" -- it lacks useful information required to help us help you. — cdhowie, Jan 14 '11 at 03:47
Please post some more information Jason. What language are you performing the parsing in? Javascript? — Caps, Jan 14 '11 at 03:48
Sorry for the not-clear post. For now what I do is to treat it as regular string and search " — Jason Li, Jan 18 '11 at 18:12
This sounds like something you can do with a regex find and replace in visual studio. — P.Brian.Mackey, Jan 18 '11 at 19:01
@HoLyVieR: I think yes, this is what I want. I was thinking maybe I could borrow someting from XmlDocument to search particular node and replace content. If we already have one somewhere on internet, that would be the best ;) — Jason Li, Jan 18 '11 at 19:08
@JasonLi You can take a look at these question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1518954/c-template-engine OR http://stackoverflow.com/questions/733378/whats-a-good-way-of-doing-string-templating-in-net That should be a good start for what you want to do. — HoLyVieR, Jan 18 '11 at 19:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Because of the complexity of HTML you should really use a rich library to help you.

I highly recommend HTMLAgility, you could then follow the advice from this post to work towards achieving your goal.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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