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Alex Yakunin
Alex Yakunin

Reputation: 6678

Library for reading HTML files as XML (.NET)

Duplicate: Looking for C# HTML parser. Please close.

Can you recommend me a library for reading HTML files as XML in .NET? I'd actually prefer to deal with XML objects rather than text. Ideally, it must fix HTML formatting errors.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 516

Answers (1)

Tim Hoolihan
Tim Hoolihan

Reputation: 12396

You may want to rethink this. The two are not equal.

a great example of this is self closing tags.

XML standard indicates that a self closing tag looks like the following:

<br/>

while html standards has non-content tags as single tags

<br>
<link rel="...">

In html, using the xml syntax actually is a violation, as /> has a different meaning.

There are more examples of these issues in the following article.

Upvotes: 2

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