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Asked: 2026-05-21T10:44:56+00:00

I am trying to make an app (in C#) in which I have to

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I am trying to make an app (in C#) in which I have to get some meanings from a website like wiktionary.com or dictionary.com. But I have never used Xml or worked with web pages at all.

I managed to get the response from the webpage (e.g from dictionary.com for a specific word) (which I hope is the xml format).

This is what I got for the word ‘Hello’.:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">
<!--attributes for answers reference-->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/">
<head>
<title>
Hello | Define Hello at Dictionary.com
</title>
<meta name="description" content="Hello definition, (used to express a greeting, answer a telephone, or attract attention.) See more."/>
<meta name="keywords" content="hello, online dictionary, English dictionary, hello definition, define hello, definition of hello, hello pronunciation, hello meaning, hello origin, hello examples"/>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hello"/>
<meta property="og:title" content="the definition of hello"/>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Dictionary.com"/>
<meta property="og:image" content="http://sp2.dictionary.com/en/i/dictionary/facebook/dictionary_logo.png"/>

Now I want to parse the following string out of the response.

used to express a greeting, answer a telephone, or attract attention.

I tried using XmlReader but got stuck. Can somebody please help me read this content?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can easily parse HTML with HTML Agility Pack.

    HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
// replace with your own content
doc.Load("file.htm");
foreach(HtmlNode meta in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/meta[@name='description'"])
{
    HtmlAttribute att = meta["content"];
    Consol.WriteLine( att.Value );
}
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