HTML Agility Pack SelectSingleNode method not listed on Universal Apps (C#)

Question

c# html-agility-pack

I am developing a simple web scraping app in C# and here is my code to load html code received from the server to HtmlDocument.

string html = res.Content.ToString();
HtmlDocument htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html);

Whenever I try to use the htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode method I am getting this error:

"Html node does not contain a reference for SelectSingleNode".

Am I missing something?

I am developing a universal app in Visual Studio 2015. Downloaded and installed html agility pack using Nuget manager.

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Eser · Accepted Answer · 8/30/2015 5:42:08 PM

Universal app doesn't support XPath. So you can not use SelectSingleNode or SelectNodes methods. But You can use Linq, like

    doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("a")
       .Where(a => a.InnerText.Contains("some text"))
       .Select(a => a.Attributes["href"].Value);

to get the same nodes

Eser