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Duplicate: Looking for C# HTML parser. Please close.

Can you recommend me a library for reading HTML files as XML in .NET? I'd actually prefer to deal with XML objects rather than text. Ideally, it must fix HTML formatting errors.

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    I know this. Otherwise I'd use regular XLINQ. Commented Jul 16, 2009 at 17:22

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You may want to rethink this. The two are not equal.

a great example of this is self closing tags.

XML standard indicates that a self closing tag looks like the following:

<br/>

while html standards has non-content tags as single tags

<br>
<link rel="...">

In html, using the xml syntax actually is a violation, as /> has a different meaning.

There are more examples of these issues in the following article.

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That's precisely the point of the question - he wants a library that would read HTML, with all its quirks, and expose it as well-formed XHTML. So <br> gets translated to <br/>, implicitly-closed <p> becomes explicitly closed, etc.

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