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I have a requirement to extract all the text that is present in the <body> of the html. Sample Html input :-
<html>
<title>title</title>
<body>
<h1> This is a big title.</h1>
How are doing you?
<h3> I am fine </h3>
<img src="abc.jpg"/>
</body>
</html>
The output should be :-
This is a big title. How are doing you? I am fine
I want to use only HtmlAgility for this purpose. No regular expressions please.
I know how to load HtmlDocument and then using xquery like '//body' we can get body contents. But how do I strip the html as I have shown in output?
Thanks in advance :)
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You can use the body's InnerText:
string html = @"
<html>
<title>title</title>
<body>
<h1> This is a big title.</h1>
How are doing you?
<h3> I am fine </h3>
<img src=""abc.jpg""/>
</body>
</html>";
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(html);
string text = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//body").InnerText;
Next, you may want to collapse spaces and new lines:
text = Regex.Replace(text, @"\s+", " ").Trim();
Note, however, that while it is working in this case, markup such as hello<br>world or hello<i>world</i> will be converted by InnerText to helloworld - removing the tags. It is difficult to solve that issue, as display is ofter determined by the CSS, not just by the markup.
138
How about using the XPath expression '//body//text()' to select all text nodes?
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