Normalize Space in HtmlAgilityPack

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Normalize Space in HtmlAgilityPack

c# html-agility-pack xpath

Question

Here is the html snippet. How do I get normalize-space text ?

To search for the same fragment, but using Xpath //*[normalize-space()='Text1 Text2']

<div>
    <div>
        <a></a>
        <a></a>
        <div><a><span></span>Text2</a></div>
    </div>
        <div>Text2</div>
</div>

Using:

var htmlNodes = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("*");

foreach (var node in htmlNodes)
{
   text += node.InnerText;
}

I get this string:

"\r\n                        \r\n                        \r\n                        \r\n                        \r\n                        Text1\r\n                    Text2"

Can I get a normal text ?

"Text1 Text2"

Vipz

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Selman GenÃ§ · Accepted Answer · 9/14/2018 6:43:00 PM

Popular Answer

You can use InnerText property instead:

var texts = document.DocumentNode.Descendants("div").Select(n => n.InnerText);

And combine them if you want:

var combined = string.Join(" ", texts);

To filter out empty values:

.Select(n => n.InnerText.Replace("\r\n", "")).Where(s => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(s));

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