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i'm trying to parse an html page with XPathDocument, but gives error 'cause the html is not an xml... is there a way to do this or not?

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Should use HtmlAgilityPack. Still the best!

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Use something like Html Agility Pack which can load your html into a DOM object which can be traversed with for example xpath queries.

Unless your html is in fact xhtml, it is usually not a valid xml structure with correct opening and ending node tags.

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I would like to mark this answer up, but htmlagilitypack does not work with the doc I'm giving it, the LoadFile() method does not have a return value, and does not throw an exception either. The document appears to not return anything when I query it either, so I'm assuming the code has "silently failed" when this happens?
Hi @ConradB, Have you tried the sample at htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Examples? Load should not return anything, but it should make you able to loop over nodes doing selections.

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