Question
Why does this pick all of my <li> elements in my document?
HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument doc = web.Load(url);
var travelList = new List<Page>();
var liOfTravels = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='myTrips']")
.SelectNodes("//li");
What I want is to get all <li> elements in the <div> with an id of "myTrips".
Accepted Answer
It's a bit confusing because you're expecting that it would do a selectNodes on only the div with id "myTrips", however if you do another SelectNodes("//li") it will performn another search from the top of the document.
I fixed this by combining the statement into one, but that would only work on a webpage where you have only one div with an id "mytrips". The query would look like this:
doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@id='myTrips'] //li");
Popular Answer
var liOfTravels = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='myTrips']")
.SelectNodes(".//li");
Note the dot in the second line. Basically in this regard HTMLAgitilityPack completely relies on XPath syntax, however the result is non-intuitive, because those queries are effectively the same:
doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//li");
some_deeper_node.SelectNodes("//li");
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