This seems like it should be a easy thing to do but I am having some major issues with this. I am trying to parse for a specific tag with the HAP. I use Firebug to find the XPath I want and come up with //*[@id=”atfResults”]. I believe my issue is with the ” since the signals the start and end of a new string. I have tried making it a literal string but I have errors. I have attached the functions
public List<string> GetHtmlPage(string strURL)
{
// the html retrieved from the page
WebResponse objResponse;
WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(strURL);
objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();
// the using keyword will automatically dispose the object
// once complete
using (StreamReader sr =
new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{//*[@id="atfResults"]
string strContent = sr.ReadToEnd();
// Close and clean up the StreamReader
sr.Close();
/*Regex regex = new Regex("<body>((.|\n)*?)</body>", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
//Here we apply our regular expression to our string using the
//Match object.
Match oM = regex.Match(strContent);
Result = oM.Value;*/
HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.Load(new StringReader(strContent));
HtmlNode root = doc.DocumentNode;
List<string> itemTags = new List<string>();
string listingtag = "//*[@id="atfResults"]";
foreach (HtmlNode link in root.SelectNodes(listingtag))
{
string att = link.OuterHtml;
itemTags.Add(att);
}
return itemTags;
}
}
You can escape it:
If you wanted to use a raw string, it would be:
As you can see, raw strings don’t really provide a benefit here.
However, you can instead use:
This will also be slightly faster.