Question
I'm trying to pull text from a "div" and to exclude everything else. Can you help me please ?!
<div class="article">
<div class="date">01.01.2000</div>
<div class="news-type"><a href="../link/page01">Breaking News</a></div>
"Here is the location of the text i would like to pull"
</div>
When I pull "article" class i get everything, but i'm unable/don't know how to exclude class="date", class="news-type", and everything in it.
Here is the code i use:
HtmlDocument doc = web.Load(url);
foreach (HtmlNode node in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[contains(@class,'article')]"))
{
name_text.text += node.InnerHtml.Trim();
}
Thank you!
Accepted Answer
Another way would be using XPath /text()[normalize-space()] to get non-empty, direct-child text nodes from the div elements :
var divs = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[contains(@class,'article')]");
foreach (HtmlNode div in divs)
{
var node = div.SelectSingleNode("text()[normalize-space()]");
Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText.Trim());
}
output :
"Here is the location of the text i would like to pull"
Popular Answer
You want the ChildNodes that are type HtmlTextNode. Untested suggested code:
var textNodes = node.ChildNodes.OfType<HtmlTextNode>();
if (textNodes.Any())
{
name_text.text += string.Join(string.Empty, textNodes.Select(tn => tn.InnerHtml));
}
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