Question

I have markup with nested tables, rowspans and colspans in a string object. I would like to create an equivalent .net object (table, grid, anything..) from it so that I can work on rows and columns of the table easily.

I am thinking when asp.net receive request from the browser with all the markup, .Net run time creates equivalent objects for us. Can I achieve the same thing programatically except that there is no table control on the page.

Or perhaps some sort of deserialization trick?

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You can’t. See SLaks comment.

You can however use HTMLAgilityPack, as suggested in this question.