Finding Node of Matching Raw Html in an HtmlAgility HtmlDocument

Hi,

I currently have a program that finds and edits HTML files based on finding a tag with a matching id.

I would like to extend it to find a tag that has matching InnerHtml (disregarding capitalization and whitespace)

What is a good way to use Html Agility to do this? I would like to do it using Html Agility because the rest of the program is using it.

Thanks.

From stackoverflow

• Rough shooting it here but you should be able to do something like this:

              HtmlNodeCollection nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("YOUR_TAG_SELECTOR");
  
              if (nodes != null)
              {
                  foreach (HtmlNode node in nodes)
                  {
                      if (node.InnerHtml.ToLower().Trim() == "YOUR_MATCH")
                      {
                          //success routine
                          break;
                      }
                  }
              }
  

  Alex Baranosky : I think this should be node.InnerHtml, not node.InnerText :)

  Pat : Ahh yes my apologies I read matching text in the original question. Corrected.

• We've done this using Regular Expressions. Something like this works for us:

  private static List<HtmlNode> GetMatchingNodes(string xPath, string pattern, HtmlDocument htmlDocument)
  {
      List<HtmlNode> matchingNodes = new List<HtmlNode>();
      foreach (HtmlNode node in htmlDocument.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(xPath))
      {
       if (Regex.IsMatch(node.InnerHtml, pattern))
       {
        matchingNodes.Add(node);
       }
      }
      return matchingNodes;
  }
  

  Hope this helps. :)