HtmlAgilityPack alternatives?

c# html-agility-pack

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I don't like some of the design decisions made in HtmlAgilityPack:

  • When using SelectNodes, if no nodes are found, it returns null rather than an empty set, so you can't just foreach over it without a null check.
  • When trying to select children with node.SelectNodes it actually searches from the document root unless you use descendant:: which is not obvious nor expected behavior at all, IMO.
  • HtmlDocument.Load doesn't return the root node, which is what you'd want 99% of the time, I think

You might disagree with that of course, but that's not the point. I'm looking for something different. Something that behaves a little more expected, or something that uses jQuery syntax would be even better. Suggestions?

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2/28/2012 1:39:22 AM

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Started project called SharpQuery

Currently supports ID, class, tag, and attribute selectors.

a
a[href]
a[href^=http://stackoverflow.com]
.class
#id

Update: I'm not maintaining this project, sorry. CsQuery has recent updates (as of July 2013), but I don't have any experience using it.

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