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Wrong Xpath if an element is part of form

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Hi, I found this package helpful for parsing html. But it is giving wrong xpath when the element is part of form. Any idea how to fix this?

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kurtnelle wrote Dec 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM

Can you post and example?

rsturley wrote May 14, 2011 at 11:34 PM

I have a similar problem that is probably related. The interior html of a form are not shown as child nodes. I have attached a C# program which uses the library to parse the attached HTML file and display the nesting level of the various tags.

This is the test HTML file:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> </head> <body>
<form method="post" action=""> <input name="Text1" type="text" /> <input name="Submit1" type="submit" value="submit" /> </form> </body>

</html>

Here is the C# program:

using HtmlAgilityPack;
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace AgilityTest
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        new Program().Run();
    }

    void Run()
    {
        string docString = HtmlDocument();
        HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
        doc.LoadHtml(docString);
        // This document has an html tag which had a head and a body.  Display the tag hierarchy.
        DisplayNode(doc.DocumentNode, 0);
    }

    void DisplayNode(HtmlNode node, int level)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < level; i++)
        {
            Console.Write("  ");
        }
        Console.Write("<{0}> <{1}>\n", level, node.OriginalName);
        foreach (HtmlNode child in node.ChildNodes)
            DisplayNode(child, level + 1);
    }

    string HtmlDocument()
    {   
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader("../../test_web_page.html");
        string text = reader.ReadToEnd();
        reader.Close();
        return text;
    }
}
}

Here is the output. Note that the input tags are shown as siblings of the form tag rather than as children.

<0> <#document>
<1> <#comment>
<1> <#text>
<1> <html>
<2> <#text>
<2> <head>
  <3> <#text>
  <3> <meta>
  <3> <#text>
<2> <#text>
<2> <body>
  <3> <#text>
  <3> <form>
  <3> <#text>
  <3> <input>
  <3> <#text>
  <3> <input>
  <3> <#text>
  <3> <#text>
  <3> <#text>
<2> <#text>
<1> <#text>

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