Question

I have the following HTML:

<div id="main-body">
    <div id="answerform">
        //  ... a few children here i want
        <form id=mwanser">
        </form>
    </div>
</div>

I want everything in the main-body, except what is in the form tag… (and don’t want the form tag itself too)….

I tried with XPath a lot but i didn’t succeed.

I’m working with C# and HTMLAgilityPack, maybe there’s a way to navigate to the child and delete it instead? The first option for me must be XPath too.

Answer 1

With XPath if you select a node you obtain the node and every descendant in it. What you can do is select the children directly but the unwanted node. Taking your sample as a test, you can write:

"/*/*/*[not(self::form)]"