Question

I am trying to remove unnecessary content from HTML. Specifically I want to remove comments. I found a pretty good solution (Grabbing meta-tags and comments using HTML Agility Pack) however the DOCTYPE is treated as a comment and therefore removed along with the comments. How can I improve the code below to make sure the DOCTYPE is preserved?

var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(htmlContent);
var nodes = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//comment()");
if (nodes != null)
{
    foreach (HtmlNode comment in nodes)
    {
        comment.ParentNode.RemoveChild(comment);
    }
}

Answer 1

Check that comment does not start with DOCTYPE

  foreach (var comment in nodes)
  {
     if (!comment.InnerText.StartsWith("DOCTYPE"))
         comment.ParentNode.RemoveChild(comment);
  }