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woodbase
woodbase

Reputation: 169

HTMLAgilityPack - selecting nodes from node collection - instead of documentNode

My code looks like this:

var matchTableHtml =
            loginPage.DocumentNode
            .SelectNodes("//table[@id='uc_refereeMatchProgram_dgMatchCategory1']
                          //tr[@class!='DataGridHeaderStyle']");

This returns a collection of nodes - as intended, so no problem in that - but!!!

var testing = matchTableHtml.Descendants()
            .Select(x => new Match()
                             {
                                 Row = x.SelectSingleNode("//td/a[position()=1]")
                                       .InnerText
                             });

Here 'x' returns the node from the documentNode and not from the 'matchTableHtml.Descendants'-collection. Anybody who knows why?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1033

Answers (1)

woodbase
woodbase

Reputation: 169

Ok - the solution was very simple... I was not starting from 'current node' but the XPath starting with // is of course relative to the root node.

Simple solution - add a dot - which gives denotes that we start from current ('//' ==> './/'):

Row = x.SelectSingleNode(".//td/a[position()=1]")
                                   .InnerText

Upvotes: 2

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