Question

I am using the Html Agility Pack to parse some html and am having an issue with a poorly formatted meta tag.

Given this meta tag:

"<meta name=\"productattributes\" value=\"shop: Baby|category: Category|category: Babies\" r\"us=\"\" exclusives|family:=\"\" strollers|name:=\"\" baby=\"\" trend=\"\" expedition=\"\" elx=\"\" travel=\"\" system=\"\" stroller=\"\" -=\"\" everglade|price:=\"\" 239.99\"=\"\">" 

When I call:

HtmlNode productAttributes = hap.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//meta[@name='productattributes']");

var productAttributesStr = productAttributes.GetAttributeValue("value", "");

The resulting productAttributesStr is ending up with the value truncated at the \”r”:

“shop: Baby|category: Category|category: Babies”

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You are using " as data inside an attribute value delimited with the same character. The first one you hits ends the attribute value. You need to represent them using entities: "