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Asked: 2026-05-19T03:35:32+00:00

How can this be done? The .InnerText Property (when used on the containing div

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How can this be done? The .InnerText Property (when used on the containing div element) is giving me the html only. Is it possible to iterate through all the li elements contained and extract their values?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is it possible to iterate through all
    the li elements contained and extract
    their values?

    From comment of the OP:

    Doctype is HTML 5 and it is valid
    code. – Radu

    In this case one can just use the following XPath expression:

    div//li//text()

    This selects all text nodes that are descendents of all li elements that are descendents of any div element that is a child of the current node.

    Using an XPath expression to select nodes in an XML (and HTML5 is well-formed XML) is the recommended, most straightforward and more reliable way than doing this with difficult to construct, difficult to test and difficult to understand and maintain regular expressions.

    Here is a complete code example:

    using System;
using System.Xml;

class TestXPath
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        string html5Text =
@"<html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
  <div>
   <ul>
    <li>Line 1</li>
    <li>Line 2</li>
    <li>Line 3</li>
   </ul>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>";

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        doc.LoadXml(html5Text);

        string xpathExpr = @"/*/*/div//li//text()";

        XmlNodeList selection = doc.SelectNodes(xpathExpr);

        foreach (XmlNode node in selection)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(node.OuterXml);
        }

    }
}

    when the above application is executed, the wanted, correct result is produced:

    Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
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