Parse HTML table with HtmlAgilityPack?

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Parse HTML table with HtmlAgilityPack?

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I'm tearing my hair out trying to figure out this HTML agility pack business. No examples I can find work with my table not matter what I modify. Here's the table I'm working with:

<td class="trow1"><strong><a href="NEED1"><span style="color:#383838">NEED2</span></a></strong></td>
<td class="trow1">NEED3</td>
<td class="trow1" align="center"" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trow1" align="center"><strong>NEED4</strong></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class="trow2"><strong><a href="NEED1"><span class="group9">NEED2</span></a></strong></td>
<td class="trow2">NEED3</td>
<td class="trow2" align="center"" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trow2" align="center"><strong>NEED4</strong></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class="trow1"><strong><a href="NEED1"><span class="group0">NEED2</span></a></strong></td>
<td class="trow1">NEED3</td>
<td class="trow1" align="center"" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trow1" align="center"><strong>NEED4</strong></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class="trow2"><strong><a href="NEED1"><span class="group7">NEED2</span></a></strong></td>
<td class="trow2">NEED3</td>
<td class="trow2" align="center"" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trow2" align="center"><strong>NEED4</strong></td>
</tr><tr>
<td class="trow1"><strong><a href="NEED1"><span class="group0">NEED2</span></a></strong></td>
<td class="trow1">NEED3</td>
<td class="trow1" align="center"" alt="" /></td>
<td class="trow1" align="center"><strong>NEED4</strong></td>
</tr>

I've replaced what I need with "NEED"1->4 for each row. I'm looking to populate a list view with this (already made this part). But I'm lost on how to go about this.

Any help? Thank you.

Ox1

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Translating this code to VB.NET it's not difficult, you can do it the following :

var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);

NEED1

var value = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//td[@class='trow1']/strong/a").Attributes["href"].Value;

NEED2

var value = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//td[@class='trow1']/strong/a/span").InnerText;

NEED3

var innerText = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//td[@class='trow1' and not(*)]").InnerText;

NEED4
```
var innerText = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//td[@class='trow1']/strong[not(a)]").InnerText;
```
I put above the single selection , if you want to select all the node in one you can use the method SelectNodes.

I hope this help you.

Victor Sigler

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