Question

Pardon me if it sounds too simple to be asked here but since this is my very first day with html-agility-pack, I am unable to sort out a way to select the inner text of a node which is the direct child of the node and ignoring inner text of the children nodes.

For example

<div id="div1">
   <div class="h1"> this needs to be selected
   <small> and not this</small>
   </div>
</div>

currently I am trying this

HtmlDocument page = new HtmlWeb().Load(url);
var s = page.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='div1']//div[@class='h1']");
string selText = s.innerText;

which returns the whole text (e.g- this needs to be selected and not this).
Any suggestions??

Answer 1

You can use the /text() option to get all text nodes directly under a specific tag. If you only need the first one, add [1] to it:

page.LoadHtml(text);
var s = page.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//div[@id='div1']//div[@class='h1']/text()[1]");
string selText = s.InnerText;