HtmlAgility and #text[]

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This is really eluding me and I have no idea how to get this *single* value when parsing the html code. There has got a way to get it using HtmlAgility.

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<td class="bodyTextSmall" valign="bottom">
    |
    |--#text[1]:
    |
    |--<b>
    |   |
    |   --#text[1]: Qty In Stock:
    |
    |--#text[2]:  188
    |
    |--<br>
    |
    |--#text[3]:
    |

This is the best I can do to demonstrate how the tree looks, after I use

./td which brings me at the top of this line

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<td class="bodyTextSmall" valign="bottom">

the question remains on how to get the #text value, I don't need them all I just need one value which has the 188

Posted 6-Jun-15 13:30pm

theadmin

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LLLLGGGG 7-Jun-15 3:20am

Have you tried to download the page and use Regex to find it?

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 7-Jun-15 4:50am

All those text are under a single TD?

theadmin 7-Jun-15 11:00am

I ended up doing the following and it seemed to work.

string instock = string.Empty;
foreach (HtmlNode node in row.SelectNodes("./td[3]/text()"))
{
instock = node.InnerText;
if (instock.IndexOf("nbsp;") > -1)
{
instock = instock.Replace("nbsp;", "");
break;
}
}

I don't know if this is the best way but its working.

LLLLGGGG 7-Jun-15 14:42pm

If it works put it as a solution and mark the thread as solved in order to make everybody understand that you do not need help anymore. :-)

theadmin 7-Jun-15 14:51pm

Thanks...

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theadmin · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-07T08:51:00

Solution 1

I ended up doing the following and it seemed to work.

C#

string instock = string.Empty;
 foreach (HtmlNode node in row.SelectNodes("./td[3]/text()"))
 {
 instock = node.InnerText;
 if (instock.IndexOf("nbsp;") > -1)
 {
 instock = instock.Replace("nbsp;", "");
 break;
 }
 }

Posted 7-Jun-15 8:51am

theadmin